Spectacle secrets / [George Cox].

  • Cox, George
Date:
[1844]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Spectacle secrets / [George Cox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lenses, constructed on the most accurate principles, suited to the purposes of vision, and worked by hand, can be had of all respectable opticians, at from one shil¬ ling and sixpence to three shillings per pair, shewing that there can be no occasion for persons, who require a change of glasses in their spectacles, to pav a guinea or thirty shillings, and give up their old pebbles or glasses into the bargain. “ A trick was practised at Brighton, during the season of 1834, which shews that those certificated gentry do not hesitate at trifles. “ Two Jews, licensed hawkers, inserted glowing ad¬ vertisements in the Brighton newspapers, couched in their usual bombastic style, but naming one gentleman only as having taken up his residence at Brighton, and stating that he would wait upon the nobility and gentry with a splendid stock of his wonderful and improved Spectacles. ££ A man called at the houses of the gentry, made many sales at the usual swindling prices, and disarmed all suspicions by inviting the purchasers to call at his residence, and make any exchange they pleased. In some cases, where the price was objected to, or the par¬ ties were taken hv surprise, not having suspected that they wanted Spectacles until this experienced professional optician told them they did, they were, notwithstanding imposed upon, £ for,’ said he, £ to prove that I am anxious to preserve your sight, which is rapidly leaving you, and cataract is growing in your eyes, these Spectacles, which are five pounds per pair, I will leave you at half-price, and you may pay me the balance at any time.’ This offer appeared so very liberal that it succeeded in several instances, and, it is scarcely necessary to say, left to the
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