by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hello, Well, that has been a hot week! I hope you got to enjoy some sunshine. Deadman and I made a little trip to the seaside on Friday evening when the day had cooled off a bit. We picnicked on pebbly Cley beach, thus avoiding getting sandy sarnies. We watched other...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hello, One of the great things about working with vintage spectacles is that you never know what goodies may come up for sale. Today, we were very excited to unwrap a case full of lovely vintage frames which we purchased. Most of them are new old stock, and have never...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hi there, This week, we have been uploading some great Marwitz frames onto the website. Marwitz is a German company producing stylish and well made glasses. It has been doing this since 1919 when Mr Marwitz senior set up business near Stuttgart creating the company...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hello, This week we have been celebrating Dead Man’s birthday, we celebrated in style in our local city of Norwich. On Dead Man’s birthday, by happy accident, we went to see the wonderful potter, Keith Brymer Jones and his partner, Marj, at Norwich Theatre...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hello This week, we have been uploading a whole selection of frames onto the website. Amongst these are several ladies’ and gents’ frames made by Austrian spectacle makers, Silhouette. Silhouette was set up in Linz in Austria in1964 by husband and wife team, Arnold...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hello We had a fabulous time over the weekend, in the form of a long-awaited trip. On Sunday 19th May, we went to London to the AGM and auction of the Ophthalmic Antiques International Collectors’ Club. Darren has been a member for a few years and has bought...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hello, This week, I am passing my blogging baton on to one of our longstanding customers, Nicholas Westover. He has written a piece for us sharing his memories of spectacle designer Michael Birch, who he knew well. Michael Birch set up spectacle design company Birch...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hello, We recently splashed out here at Dead Men’s Spex and bought a new tint bath, we already had one so now we have doubled our capacity for colour! In case you don’t know, a tint bath isn’t something you wash in, it’s a device used to colour...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News, Uncategorized
Hello, As promised, I have been researching the names of the shops on the 1950s paper bags which were used to wrap the lenses in Joseph Briffa Boothman’s testing kit. There were several including Meesons Ltd a national chain tobacconists, with its head office in...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hi all, Happy Easter Sorry I didn’t blog last week, things ran away with me a bit! Dead Man Junior came home from University for a few days and we spent time with him. Then I had a grand tour to drop him off which involved travelling from Norfolk to Warwick via...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
A colourful collection of 1980s Anglo American frames sourced from the Raven Trust As I was saying last week, one of the good things about Dead Men’s Spex is the interesting people we meet. A few weeks ago, Darren and I went to Essex to visit Sue and John Kevan who...
by Darren Manion | Blog and News
Hello, spring is in the air and the birds are getting frisky here in rural Norfolk, the pigeons have already started eyeing up their nest sites and the primroses are sprinkled liberally along the verges. This time of new beginnings has prompted me restart the blog so...
