Q on eye glasses

[Sir Michael]

Here is a link to a good site on period spectacles.  Once you know what the year you want its easy to use this site to pick out the appropriate characteristics.  Then go looking for a pair of frames that will meet your needs.

http://www.antiquespectacles.com/guide/guide_to_assist.htm

[Geezer in NH]

I am lucky, one of my nephews makes glasses and the office he works for, the DR is a hunter shooter. For letting the DOC use my winch for his moose hunt I have had access for period glasses, but better yet my glasses I use to shoot in competition are set up with the focal point for my sights!!! Sweet deal

[Riley/MN]

Geezer - Where are you located?

[Sir Michael]

Here is another source.

http://earlyspecs.com/

[Geezer in NH]

25 miles south of GMRB in Conway NH

[Riley/MN]

Okay, I had friends in Keene that had gone to an "eye-guy" that was a shooter. Don't remember the name, but I could probably find out.

Used to make it up to Conway once in a while when I lived in VT...

[Geezer in NH]

My nephew works out of Rochester down by the coast.

[Hank in WV]

One of my favorite areas in the country. Used to love the spring skiing up on Mt Washington. Also loved the bike races in Laconia.

[LRB]

Just a suggestion. You can buy these in 41mm for $9.95. That's frame and lenses. With reasonable care, the lenses can be cut down to fit other frames with a Dremel tool. I have done this a half dozen times. I wear these very same glasses as shown as my every day glasses, and find them to be very good, and I have a hard to correct prescription. I have to pay an extra $5.00 or $10.00 because I am in their extreme range of being near sighted. Check them out.  Round Eyeglass Frames for Men & Women | Zenni Optical

[No Rod]

Just a suggestion. You can buy these in 41mm for $9.95. That's frame and lenses. With reasonable care, the lenses can be cut down to fit other frames with a Dremel tool. I have done this a half dozen times. I wear these very same glasses as shown as my every day glasses, and find them to be very good, and I have a hard to correct prescription. I have to pay an extra $5.00 or $10.00 because I am in their extreme range of being near sighted. Check them out.  Round Eyeglass Frames for Men & Women | Zenni Optical

these are the glasses I wear... had the put in progressive bi-focals too. very reasonable.

[Mad Irish Jack]

 These are my glasses. They were made in this manufactioning fashion from the early-mid 1700's. Mine have been documented as made between 1803 to 1805. The dates are the only period when the letters USA were engraved into the nose bridge that is silver soldered to the glass rims. These glasses have been so lettered. The stems are formed, heated and cold quenched to harden for a formed ear bend. The stems are curled to a loop and attached with a small brass rivet (this is due to fact that small machined screws weren't perfected and put into eyeglass frames until the 1890's). Thus most eyeglasses for events need only the proper appearance as there are few and far between originals and those willing and able to use them. And, most tinted glasses were for a medicinal use of some need.