lostloves
Contrary to the title this is more a post about a lost item that I miss dearly that I bought and lost in Amsterdam... an item which I found a great rarity and yet wonderfully and properly suitable for me.
The only picture I came across on the interwebs of a similar design is below:
image source: University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences
These opera glasses unfolded from those double clamshells... it was brilliant. The only other ones I've come across online unfolded from a single box and are of later generations. The only difference I can recall from mine to the ones pictured is the fact that the ones I bought were completely done in bronze and had no leather features. Otherwise these are the only ones I have found (part of a University's collection, likely impossible for me to get) on the interwebs.
I often get sad about having lost them, especially before going to a show where I am in a back row or balcony somewhere in a theatre.
Curse me for having left it at the hostel. Curses.