Reading glasses, eyeglasses or spectacles of vintage quality have never been more collectible then now. From those early wires to those 1950s glasses with the cats-eye frames and those big ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “They’re not terribly practical things unless you’re a 90-year-old lady that wants to peer at someone ...

Illustrations of Ben Franklin often show him wearing eyeglasses. Sometimes they’re round. Sometimes they’re rectangular. Most researchers credit him with inventing the bifocal to solve his own problem ...

Upmarket spectacles for the rich. Stirling silver frame, hall marked Birmingham 1830, with sliding sides for insertion into wigs. The lenses are R & L +4.00DS flat form. Curved lenses did not come ...