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A humorous image of two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching.
Wellcome Collection

A humorous image of two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching.

1830

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Living made easy. Revolving hat. Which by a slight touch presents its Wearer with, eye-glass, ceger, scent-box, spectacles, hearing-trumpet, &cc, &cc, without the intolerable trouble holding them.

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