12 Vintage Eye Glasses Clipart
Today we have a fun collection of Old Fashioned Vintage Eye Glasses Clipart! Wow! There are some pretty fascinating glasses pictures shown below. Especially interesting to me are the ones that have eyes drawn into them. There are some in color and others black and white, but all are splendid examples. A few have frames for covering one’s ears, but others were designed to just set on the nose, around the neck, or handheld. Those are not seen commonly today. I think these would work great with your Steampunk Projects or be fun to transfer onto an Eyeglass case!
Full Color Old Fashioned Glasses Images
I’m pretty excited about this one; it was a splurge for sure, but well worth it I think! This is a rare Antique Scrap piece of a pair of Spectacles in full color. It has the Eyes inside the glass openings! If you look closely you will see that the white dots next to the pupils are actually holes. I think this was used as a sort of mini mask for a costume. So fun! I would love to see this as a large Painted Sign!!
Here is the latest addition to this collection. Well this one is certainly quite unusual! Here we have an old scrap piece showing a pair of spectacles. Inside of the spectacles are 3 large birds that are playing pool together, and one of them is wearing monocle. Haha! I really can’t even imagine how the artist came up with this.
This is such a cool looking piece! Here we see a spectacles image that has the reflection of a man on the lenses. The man is also wearing spectacles. Fun!
Black and White Eye Glasses Clipart
These appear to be the sunglass version of the ones below! They have the same round rims, but the lenses look to be tinted. Rather unusual and so cool!
These fun specs are perfectly round with dark rims. I think they are pretty cute!
I love these old time eyeglasses or spectacles. I was happy to find these, with the eyes in them and all! Even though it is a bit scary looking as the eyes have a frightened appearance! Notice that these have no side ear pieces. They were worn around the neck, or hung on a pin and held with the hand to see. These come from an 1880’s catalog.
Featured above is an old optician’s advertisement from an early newspaper, apparently from Alaska. It has a folded up frame, and the expanding lines drawn from the eyes must represent powerful vision resulting from the glasses. I think it’s pretty awesome!
Here’s a fun pair of old Fashioned Eyeglasses or Spectacles from an Antique Catalog! These are actually Bifocals, which you can see if you look closely at the curvature in the lenses. Perhaps this made them a little ahead of their time! I sense that these were lightweight and comfortable to wear due to the thin frame.
This fun Vintage Clip Art Image comes from an 1870’s Type Book! Pictured above are some interesting looking Spectacles with a Pocket Watch. I’m not sure why the two are shown together, but it is a great Steampunk graphic for sure. This may have been an advertisement for a business that made and/or sold both of these items.
Here we have a Vintage Wire Glasses Image! Shown above is a black and white illustration of a pair of Wire Framed Eyeglasses. These are closer in appearance to some modern day glasses I think. Scanned from a rare Circa 1941/1942 Printer’s Catalog, this is another fine image!
Antique Eyeglass Advertising Graphics
This is a fun ad from an 1800’s Printer Book! The ad is for a Jeweler and Optician and includes a cute set of Spectacles with Eyes! I wonder if the glasses were commonly sold first so that the customer would have a better view of the jewelry in stock!!
People Wearing Glasses
Here is the latest addition to this collection. Here we have a retro image of a man wearing glasses. He looks quite a lot like my Grandpa! He had white hair that was styled just like that, he wore glasses and he smoked a pipe too.
I hope you enjoyed this fun curated collection of vintage eye glasses clipart. You might also like our Best Steampunk Images HERE.
Karen Gouvas says
I love these glasses absolutely perfect for a man’s journal especially the glasses and fob watch I agree with your description underneath the image I think it’s a advertisement by a Company that made both items as it wouldn’t work wearing a fob watch on the nose the weight would make them slide on the wears nose plus you wouldn’t be able to read the watch if they are attached to a pair of reading glasses, Thank-you Karen.
graphicsfairy says
Thanks so much Karen, I am so glad you enjoyed them!
Maxine D says
Thanks for these amazing images Karen
Stay safe
Blessings
Maxine
graphicsfairy says
It is always my pleasure Maxine, please stay safe and have a great day!
Karen- The Graphics Fairy says
Thanks Deb and Donata!
Donata Krnjic says
Beautiful! I’ll use this to decorate my hat stand!
Thanks, Karen 🙂
deb says
Thank you! I needed an image of glasses. 🙂