Today we got a new shipment of antique eyeglasses from Europe. These are 14 pairs of genuine vintage round Windsor eyeglasses. The color of these is silver, they are made of some sort of metal, possibly stainless steel. They were never used, New Old Stock (NOS) sometimes also called Deadstock eyeglasses. These were recently found in a factory in the...
March 2019
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Why there are so few antique tortoiseshell eyeglasses around today.
Here at The Vintage Optical Shop we get to see a nice sampling of the frames made 50-150 years ago. We can often tell by the quantities of the different vintage eyeglass frames we get which were the most popular in their prospective era and which were more rare. We can also tell which vintage frames lasted until today and... -
What's a recent MIT study got to do with vintage eyeglasses?
Recently there was a story in the news that MIT online magazine conducted a study that concluded that hipsters often look alike, which they found ironic for a group of people trying not conform, trying to stand out. The study seems to suggest that many people are trying hard not to conform by doing the same things, beard, Horn Rimmed Vintage eyeglasses, Flannel Shirt etc... -
The more eyeglasses change, the more they stay the same
In the early days antique eyeglasses were sold by peddlers and shopkeepers, who generally had a trial set of 8 to 10 antique eyeglasses from which one could select the prescription most suitable to them. The scientific methods used today to help determine the prescription for ones eyeglasses was still in its infancy, only significantly improving in the late 1800’s...