Georgian Quizzing Glass vintage Stones: Old Pear Cut White

Stones: Old Pear Cut White Topaz & Rose Cut Vauxhall Glass (aka mirror glass)

in the 84th year of his age

These charming little Stanhopes (or Stanho-scopes

5pt old mine cut diamond

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Georgian Quizzing Glass vintage Stones: Old Pear Cut WhiteAn ornate Georgian Quizzing Glass or Quizzer dating from the early 1800s. Quizzing glasses became wildly fashionable amongst men and women alike during 1790s. Built around an oval lens, either magnifying or corrective, women would have worn them on a long chain and men on a black ribbon tied around the neck. But to understand their true function we must first discuss the Lorgnette A lorgnette is, essentially, a pair of glasses on a stick that became