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    Posted 10 years ago

    whitman75
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    This is a pair of rare vintage 1930s GP car Racing goggles. Made by well known E.P Meyrowitz. The frame is stamped France depose. I think these are from the 1930s but could be older. Don't know much about them or can't find much either other than that please help.

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    1. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      E.B. Meyrowitz.

      Lindberg used his goggles while crossing the Atlantic in May 1927!

      http://markdionne.com/ged/individual.php?pid=I8262&ged=dionne-mason.ged

      Mr Emil Bruno Meyrowitz was born in 1852 in Greifenhagen, Prussia. He emigrated to South Africa but opened three opticians in Paris, New York and London. He died in 1937. The firm he created used the griffin as its symbol. He patented a type of opera glass mount.

      He became well regarded for the design of his own line of optical and medical products. The company has enjoyed the patronage of a famous clientele including Eisenhower and Churchill.



      The name is still used today in Paris, London & New York.

      http://www.google.com.au/patents/US411527
      http://www.gentlemansgazette.com/e-b-meyrowitz/
    2. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      Here's a look at some posters of the period?
      https://www.facebook.com/MeyrowitzParis/photos/pcb.690287704338443/690287641005116/?type=1&theater

      And how is your French?
      http://www.asso-scooter.org/Goggles-re-edition-des-lunettes


    3. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      Perhaps this is the patent?

      http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US1996587.pdf
    4. whitman75 whitman75, 10 years ago
      The top of the center of the glasses next to his name its stamped France in photo 2.
    5. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      Here was the competition .... Eugène Jeantet.
      http://aviatorgoggle.ex-flash.com
    6. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      He had shops in England, France & the States.
    7. whitman75 whitman75, 10 years ago
      Les lunettes I saw what appears to be the gp racing with these goggles on the ad
    8. vetraio50 vetraio50, 10 years ago
      This was an ebay item: the aluminium case:
      http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-MILITARY-AVIATION-PILOT-GLASSES-GOGGLES-CASE-E-B-MEYROWITZ-PARIS-1910-/330903687598
    9. whitman75 whitman75, 10 years ago
      Maybe they were for racing and pilots really cool.

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