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'Skeleton' Glasses are collapsing opera glasses (theatre binoculars) with folding eyepieces and object glasses
This compound monoscope has many adjustable features
marked with 'N-O-S-W' cardinal directions
English-made
stage plate
1854 “Aposeosis of Homer” Magasin Pittoresque Framed Print magnifier 'Skeleton' Glasses are collapsing operaAntique Framed Copperplate Engraving of 'The Aposeosis of Homer' by Pietro Santi Bartoli from 1854's Le Magasin Pittoresque. 'The Aposeosis of Homer' was a popular artistic scene in classical times, depicting the poet Homers' ascention (aposeosis) to divine status. This illustration by Pietro Santi Bartoli is of the 3rd Century marble bas relief created by Archelaus of Priene (currently housed in the British Museum). Bartoli (1635 1700), a pupil of
