Like lorgnettes, binoculars were soon attached to long handles, and these handled contraptions evolved into the ornate opera glasses we know today. The folding bridge solved the problem of varying pupil distance between people by making use of a hinged bridge. The hard bridge style came in three sizes: small, medium, and large. They are of two styles: hard bridge and folding bridge. By 1850 they were refined to the type most commonly found today. $84 1954, very thin (3.2 x 14 in 1984 catalog) At the end of the 19th century, binocular technology finally improved enough to allow viewers to focus both eyes on the same point. Opera glasses were introduced around 1800. "Highest light transmission of any binocular" from 1953 NY Price List If the case is original, then the opera glasses are definitely much older than 'around 40-50s of the twentieth century'. oriented Handbook and, after 1927, Hoffmans Birds of the Pacific States. $186 in 1954, $230 in 1961 also monocular MONACHT From Florence Merriam, Birds through an Opera-Glass (Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
#OPERA GLASSES 1927 CODE#
Leitz / Leica "Binoculars" data courtesy of Peter Abrahams Code Nameįirst commercially available Leitz binocularsĨ x 26 IF 1914-ca.1926 also monocular MOMONĪlso monocular MONOFOREST 735 gm / 26 oz The Majestic Theatre is a Broadway theater at 245 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.