A Pair of George III Silver Spectacles, maker's mark IS...
A Pair of George III Silver Spectacles, maker's mark IS incuse, London, 1792, with oval lenses and double hinged Ayscough-type arms, engraved with initials 'DE', in conforming shagreen spectacle case, with manuscript note describing the present glasses as 'Mrs Dodsons Eldred's', the case 13.5cm wide
The present glasses may have belonged to Dinah Jarvis (1742-1821) of Overshot Mill, Middlesex. She married, in 1762, Dodson Eldred (1737-1816) and with him had 10 children. The Eldred family claimed to be connected to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and indeed their eldest son Edward Jarvis Eldred (1763-1847) himself went to America in 1798.
James Ayscough (d.1759) was an optician as well as a being known as a maker of other scientific instruments. He is credited with the introduction of double hinged arms on spectacles such as the present pair. He is also thought to have created the idea of sunglasses through his use of tinted lenses.
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A Pair of George III Silver Spectacles, maker's mark IS incuse, London, 1792, with oval lenses and double hinged Ayscough-type arms, engraved with initials 'DE', in conforming shagreen spectacle case, with manuscript note describing the present glasses as 'Mrs Dodsons Eldred's', the case 13.5cm wide
The present glasses may have belonged to Dinah Jarvis (1742-1821) of Overshot Mill, Middlesex. She married, in 1762, Dodson Eldred (1737-1816) and with him had 10 children. The Eldred family claimed to be connected to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and indeed their eldest son Edward Jarvis Eldred (1763-1847) himself went to America in 1798.
James Ayscough (d.1759) was an optician as well as a being known as a maker of other scientific instruments. He is credited with the introduction of double hinged arms on spectacles such as the present pair. He is also thought to have created the idea of sunglasses through his use of tinted lenses.
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