These are vintage American Optical "Liner" frames. Made from the 1940s on into the 1970s when the fashion for huge, gaudy eyewear swept all small-lensed glasses from the marketplace. This frame is of exceptional quality, having been designed by American Optical with the benefit of decades of experience, and at a time when plastic-framed glasses were coming into vogue. In order for the all-metal Liner to succeed, it had to be good. Never a glamorous frame, the AO Liner wasn't cheap either. It stands with certain other icons of twentieth-century design— Levi's jeans, Converse All Star Chuck Taylors, etc. —highly regarded as superior in quality and timeless in design. |
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The lens size of this frame, engraved on the underside of the left hinge is 48. By the left nosepad is the indication of the bridge size: 24. The temples say American Optical 1/10 12KGF 6-1/2.
The glass in these frames is clean and nearly perfect. I have no idea what the prescription might be. It is actually glass, not plastic, and accordingly they are quite heavy.
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