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US Patent No. 26413 Opera Glass by B.H. Blank September 12 1882 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame but a five-cent slab ofUs Patent No. 26413 Opera Glass by Bh Blank September 12 1882 B. H. Blank's engineering filing renders the twin barrels and knurled focusing wheel of a Gilded Age opera glass, that small brass instrument by which a lady in the mezzanine could study a tenor's brow or a rival's jewels with equal, unblinking precision. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's