Four pairs of theatre binoculars, late 19th or early 20th century: - a large one in brass and sea turtle shell (Chelonioidea spp) (pre-Convention) quilted with polychrome flowers and numbered escutcheons, signed Lafontaine, Opt. 18 Palais Royal. - one in brass decorated with burgaud mother-of-pearl plates, signed Cam-Lafontaine, Optician. - one in metal decorated with Burgundian mother-of-pearl plates, forming a hand-to-hand formation. - one in brass decorated with garlands of flowers, knotted in polychrome enamels on a white guilloché background, forming a hand-to-hand. Scratches, wears, shocks, cracks, accidents and missing parts.