product code : k8319 : £ 145

• 1950's grey pearl layer on black plastic frame
  marked AMERICAN OPTICAL


• Can be glazed with Rx or sunglasses lenses.

condition

• lenses : n/a


• frame : very good


• fit : very good

size

• face : 126mm


• lens width : 46mm (marked on frame)


• lens height : 34mm


• bridge : 20mm (marked on frame)


• arms : 140mm (4-5½" marked on frame)

other info

• Although in the 1950's American Optical didn't stamp the
  
  name on the frame, we know this is Prelude as it appears in
  
  their catalogue for 1958, when it was new that year. It was
  
  described thus, "Dramatically modern...Beauty and fashion
  
  appeal...Modestly upswept eyeshape...Two-tone treatment."
  
  This was a new shape for eyewear in that it wasn't as upswept,
  
  it was a slightly flatter, wider shape - a sign of things to come,
  
  hence "modestly". Ours is the Pearl Onyx colourway, the pearly
  
  grey layer extending down the arms. Looks hardly worn, in new
  
  condition.
  
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