At the Vintage Optical Shop our goal is one and simple: provide genuine vintage and antique eyeglasses that is suitable for prescription lenses and daily use. Many of the vintage eyeglasses we get do not qualify as such for one reason or another and we therefore do not list them. With newer plastic frames such as vintage...
May 2019
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A look at an American Optical Catalog of 1960's eyeglasses
Today we will talk about one of our favorite ways for dating vintage eyeglass frames. Namely, vintage catalog's. We recently came across an old American Optical Catalog. This was a catalog from 1963 meant for opticians and salesmen of vintage eyeglasses. It showcases their current inventory of 1960's glasses and the sizes they come in, available colors, as well as... -
Vintage Eyewear Spotlight: Windsor Eye Glasses
In today's post we will explore the history of antique Windsor style eyeglasses, the iconic fully vintage round glasses worn by many famous people such as Mahatma Gandhi, Ernest Hemingway, and John Lennon. Windsor glasses date back to the late 1800's. Originally invented in the city of Windsor in England. Nose pieces as we know them today hadn't been invented...