Reminding us of the kind of kids’ storybook viewer into which slot circular wheels of film frames, this similar retro feel device likewise features two eyepieces, and indeed two lenses. Where it ...

Question: I have a pair of my great-great-grandmother’s opera glasses. They were given to her by her husband around 1875-1885. The glasses need to be taken apart so the lenses can be cleaned. I am ...

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The opera glasses Abraham Lincoln held when he was fatally shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865 are on the auction block. Lincoln carried the opera glasses to a showing of the play ...

The story goes that the opera glasses were found in the middle of Tenth Street after the mortally wounded Abraham Lincoln was carried from Ford's Theatre to his deathbed in the Petersen House that ...

Q: These lovely opera glasses have been in my family for generations. They’re made of brass and mother-of-pearl. They’re marked “Paris” and “Audemair Optician.” There are a few marks in the brass but ...