| Antique Opera Glasses are manufactured to hold | | | | century. |
| hand held eyeglasses or spectacles which were quite | | | | There are also the Cobalt Blue with silver stars and a |
| fashionable during the Edwardian and Victorian periods | | | | scroll of gold that were manufactured in Paris. The |
| i.e. during the year 1800 to 1920. During this period they | | | | Antique ones are mainly a pair of field binoculars that |
| were mainly silver, gold, and steel plated. Antique opera | | | | were used by wealthy landlords during Edwardian and |
| glasses were used for different purposes and were | | | | Victorian periods. They are mainly classified into |
| made of different patterns like Rose Enamel which | | | | binocular versions of the telescope created by Galileo. |
| were manufactured in France and used to see birds | | | | It has a concave eyepiece with a convex lens and |
| and flowers. | | | | these lens combination made the image look magnified |
| Later, there was the amber colored mother which | | | | and upright to the viewer. |
| was the pearl opera glass that featured a central | | | | They have an enclosing tube and the lens rim that is |
| lorgnette and restoration to handle it. The French opera | | | | present in it can be folded down over the handle when |
| glass has fantastic embroidery that shows a man | | | | not in use. However, they do not appear during the |
| playing a flute and a woman holding a fan that has a | | | | 1800 period but it is found that the concept of opera |
| beautiful landscape on the background. The French | | | | glasses came from 1606 periods. But during the 1900 |
| opera glass has a polished brass body with leaf | | | | period they shot to fame and were used by the rich |
| banding and was manufactured during the 19th | | | | people to exhibit their status. |