Large Brass Angle-Poise Library Magnifying Glass, c.1910 Art Deco Height (approx): 40cm

Height (approx): 40cm

'The Ballad Of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century' by Austin Dobson with fifty illustrations by Hugh Thomson

when the eagle knocked it out of his hand

making it a foundation for nineteenth-century classical studies

Large Brass Angle-Poise Library Magnifying Glass, c.1910 Art Deco Height (approx): 40cmA brass angle poise library magnifying glass of good prorportions, c. 1910. The weighted domed base supports two adjustable stems and terminates in a large brass rimmed magnifying lens. The angle poise has various knocks and repairs from its years of use. The stem has been historically re soldered to the base and the leather underside of the base is fraying to the extremities. The magnifier lens ball joint is seized. The adjustable stem and keys work