NUREMBERG MAGNIFYING GLASS 17th CENTURY WITH ITS CASE RIM EMBOSSED
Stock Number: 618
£1,480
Dimensions
CASE 4 IN.
Circa
1750
Country of manufacture
Germany
Description
THE COPPER RIM READS ” J.E. MAY SEEL.ERE. IOH. HIERONIMUS SCHNEIDER 10H.ERHARD MAY SEEL.ERE. “
THE CASE WHICH IS ORIGINAL WAS LATER OWNED BY JACOB FRIES, DATED 1813 , WHO WAS A PROMINENT
FIGURE IN PENNSYLVANIA, AND LED THE ” FRIES REBELLION” IN 1799.
IT HAS THE ORIGINAL LENS , WORKS WELL , IT HAS SOME SCUFFING.
A RARE HISTORICAL PEICE
