A PAIR OF GOLD SPECTACLES

MARK OF MARCUS OR WILLIAM WISE, BROOKLYN, CIRCA 1850

细节

A PAIR OF GOLD SPECTACLES
MARK OF MARCUS OR WILLIAM WISE, BROOKLYN, CIRCA 1850
Of typical form, marked on frame
5½ in. wide; 113.2 gr.

拍品专文

William Wise is listed in an 1873 Brooklyn business directory as a jeweler who dealt in watches, silver, and spectacles and was located at 79 Fulton Street. Marcus Wise is listed as an optician in Louise Conway Belden, Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissel Collection, 1980, p. 452.