May I borrow them? I'm going to the opera in a couple of weeks and want to look fabulous LOL. You are very lucky to have found them with the case in tact! I wish mine had cases. Thanks for sharing the wonderful research! I have mother of pearl opera glasses that I will post at some point. The Baille-Lemaire group later got involved in trains and did work for big French industrial names: the EDF (electricity), the SNCF (French rail network), the RATP (Paris public transport)and the French Army. The group were also involved in the production of medals, coins and tokens and are well known in numismatics too! It seems they are a rarity, unlike the 'jumelles' that the company produced. I've not been able to find a photo on the net of one of these cars. One of their cars took part in the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898. And it seems they set up a model factory with benefits for the workers there including banks and even a model town to house the workers called la cité Baille-Lemaire. They got involved in the car industry between 18 ! They built a car with an air cooled two cylinder motor that could deliver eight horse power called the Model 8CV. But the endeavour was a little bit more adventurous than making optical instruments. Lemaire exported his goods all over the world.Īrmand Lemaire died in 1885 and his son in law Jean Baptiste Baille took over the running of the firm now called the Baille Lemaire group.Īs an aspiring entrepreneur Baille set up a factory in the Essonne at Crosne. The French term for binoculars is 'jumelles' or twin girls. They produced a variety of optical apparatus including binoculars. I've been researching the Lemaire firm and have found out that the firm was begun in 1846 in Paris, rue Oberkampf. Most references put them to the early 1900's. I found this pair in the case with the bee opening clip at the Salvos. The movement, the lenses, the iridescence of the mother of pearl. For some strange reason I had wanted a pair of these opera glasses since I was a kid.
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