🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Little opera glasses ? Or binoculars with picture of napoleon?

[Loveinthemist]

Hello,
What is this? What is the value please , It’s on a bracelet which doesn’t seem like it is original
When you look through you see a picture of the dom des invalades in Paris in one pic
The other is
Little pictures of napoleon 1
Tombeau something
Napoleon 1814 on a horse

 

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[Loveinthemist]

Sorry it’s my first post forgot to say it’s small 2cm x 2cm

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

My first impression (without being able to physically inspect the piece) is this is something that was made for the Paris tourist trade. Based in the design of the chain and the glasses, probably c1900.

Thinking outside the box, it may have been made for the Paris Exhibition of 1900.
Dave

The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.

 

[tamrock]

I saw on maybe antiques roadshow things like that, where very small photographic slides were inside tiny viewers like that. I'm having trouble selecting the keywords to search what they might be called. Probably some French word would best describe them?. They are a later 19th century innovation and very collectible. Today there are viewers called key chain viewers that do the same thing. Bet Red-Coat will know exactly what they are. Sorry I can't help anymore, but my brain woke up over loaded with others issues to deal with this darn Monday morning.

 

[Red-Coat]

Neat. Somewhere, I have a very similar item with the opera glasses made from bone or ivory, trimmed with gold-plated base metal. Mine has a view of Notre Dame cathedral through one side and the Eiffel tower (or maybe it was the Arc de Triomphe) through the other.

The one I have was produced as a souvenir charm and purchased just after the war by my parents during their honeymoon in Paris. It was 'newly-made' at the time, but I don't doubt that earlier pre-war examples exist back to the beginning of the 1900s. Difficult to date unless there are helpful marks.

 

[digi-shots]

I think these are called stanhopes…

google ”Stanhope images”…. Device to view micro or miniature images.

If there is no tarnish it might be gold vs brass

 

[Loveinthemist]

Thank you everyone will start googling