My new period correct safety/shooting glasses

[Will Ketchum]

The problem might be like that of the drivers glasses.  The lenses probably not safety glass and may shatter when struck with a lead projectile.  That might be worst than just the lead.   You might consider having the lenses changed.

Will Ketchum

[Tjackstephens]

I don't know how many of you noticed my shooting glasses at the National. I had ordered them form our classified section here on the web site. Safe look correct and do have side shields.  About as close as you can get and still be safe. Tj

['Monterrey' Jack Brass]

W.K. - They do have small, thick deep set glass lenses. I'll restore and keep them in as-is condition so as not to ruin such a rare piece of history. Having said that, the only times I've experienced splash of the sort that might cause issues with these period eye protectors is from the smokeless/under-power load crowd and so far NCOWS is a pretty safe haven from this sort of thing. So they'll remain unchanged except for basic restoration.

Brass

[Dr. Bob]

You're a braver man than me, Gunga Din!!

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Jack Brass...
Can you take a photo of the actual glasses and post here?

Bill

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Sorry Jack....I see that they are already there...someday I'll get up on the right side of the bed.

One observation or maybe several...the safety glasses illustrated in the catalog look to be separate from the actual glasses they are covering (a safety cover for your regular eye wear?) and have a solid bridge going across the nose from one lens to the other, and not a string holding them together.  Jack Brass's glasses are all one piece and have eyelets for the string across the bridge. Plus...the bridge on the originals look to be solid and not elastic, is that what I am seeing?

Bill

['Monterrey' Jack Brass]

OCB - the, for lack of a better term, the goggle's 'ocular cups' are distinct and separate pieces with provision for being attached by a cord to go over the bridge of the nose and a separate, larger cord for putting around the head. So there are really two cords involved in the goggle assembly. There is another illustration of the period goggles in the 1886 Peck & Snyder catalog on a different page that confirms this, though they're not called Schweizer by name. These period safety goggles very much resemble in principle those cheesy orange plastic eye cup swimming goggles from the 1980s that fit each eye individually.

I'll show them to you later this year at the midwest regional after they're fully restored and ready for use. I fear upon wearing them I'll look more like a period correct bug than an old west type....

Brass