Dead Men’s Spex at Little Vintage Lover Fair
Today is the day of Little Vintage Lover Fair's virtual vintage lover fair. It's a beautiful morning but very chilly so there are some advantages to a virtual fair; you can peruse vintage goodies without going out into the cold! We have chosen a selection of frames...
Dead Men’s Spex – look out for us online!
Did you get to see the Small Axe film 'Mango' last Sunday? We did and were looking out for our glasses which we spotted, Aunt Betty (Llewella Gideon ) the cook in the Mangrove was wearing a pair of ours and so was Ian Macdonald (Jack Lowden) the defence lawyer for...
Mangrove – glasses supplied by Dead Men’s Spex
How is lock down two going for you? We are fortunate in that our business is mainly on line and we can continue pretty much as usual and thankfully (for all of us!) Dead Man Junior is still attending school. Unfortunately, not all businesses are as lucky as us; the...
Lockdown two at Dead Men’s Spex
What a difference a week makes. As we enter lockdown 2 day 5 Dead Man and I have been mainly sorting frames. He managed to get in under the wire and get to London last Wednesday the day before lockdown and buy a whole selection of fabulous new old stock. It was not...
New website
We have a new website. Hooray! Along with the new website we have a new blog page, so here I am and it’s great to be back! We also have a new website provider, Starfish, who have been working hard to set it all up and get it out there for us. Our new site is smart...
Spectacles, art and everything – the tooth the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!
I’m often asked that if money was no object what frames would I love to own in my collection. Well to be honest, most collectible frames tend to be collectible due to the provenance of the person who owned them and not necessarily the quality of the frame. Who...
Merry Christmas from Dead Men’s Spex
Hello Merry Christmas Uh oh! I hope Santa doesn't think I have been too naughty as I haven't blogged for a very long time. I'm happy to say that 2019 and has been good to us here at Dead Men's Towers. Looking over the year, a highlight for me was venturing up North to...
Dead Men’s Spex on the radio…
Well we are in December already and things have been going well at Dead Men's Spex. In November we went with Little Vintage Lover Fair to a new venue to sell our glasses at the Great Hospital in Norwich, it is a beautiful medieval hospital tucked away behind the...