SIR JOHN EYRE'S SILVER-MOUNTED READING OR MAGNIFYING GLASS, UNMARKED, PROBABLY LONDON, CIRCA 1730, THE ENGRAVING ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES GARDNER |

the exterior finely engraved with scrolling foliage, shells, flowerheads, husks and brickwork, a similarly engraved coat-of-arms and foliate cartouche with winged cherub's head on one side and the initials RE in monogram on the other, complete with lens in swivel mount