Police Request

[EyeFitWell]

I am thinking that man.. how often were they worn? Either that, or this man saw his optician often. To have that old of a frame in good enough condition to read all that information from the frame itself.. when most time it wears off in a matter of a couple of years...

Weren't those old Sferoflex names actually stamped into the temple rather than painted on?

[LandLord]

Could have been purchased last week from a retailer that sells disco frames.

I've seen frame reps selling brand new 15 year old frames.

[Uncle Fester]

Could have been purchased last week from a retailer that sells disco frames. (Now that would make it easy! Anyone in CA selling steel gray Phoenix's out of your trunk??)

I've seen frame reps selling brand new 15 year old frames.

What could have been are much smaller odds than that these were purchased a long time ago, and probably at a Lenscrafters IMO. So there's a person of interest out there in need of new glasses. I wish we could be told the rx but I'm sure law enforcement has a protocol that's being followed and when and if more help from us is warranted they'll let us know. For now I think we should keep the good idea's coming.

[CuriousCat]

How very cool would it be that we could pool our knowledge and skills together and be a real resource here!

Let's decide what information would be relevant and go from there.

Rx
Material
Frame
Specific wear patterns ie. corrosion, temple adjustments or modifications

What else would differentiate one pair from another?

[KStraker]

I don't think the Sferoflex and Berdel name existed in tandem for very long. I've never seen them on the same frame personally.

[Jubilee]

I don't think the Sferoflex and Berdel name existed in tandem for very long. I've never seen them on the same frame personally.

I have an old Facet Flex 1 that has the berdel Glasses logo, and both BerDel and Sferoflex on the frame temple. (white markings on GEP)

The other thing I was looking at is that it is white markings (appears stamped with paint) and not stamped engraved on the temple.

[Pivot]

Hi Folks - just as an aside to this thread (being outside the US) and giving you another story to add to optom history, in 1923 the actor and optician Jimmy O'Dea (Darby O'Gill and the Little People) by examination of a pair of spectacles identified them as belonging to the decomposed body of Noel Lemass. Noel was the brother of Jimmys good friend Sean Lemass the third Taoiseach of Ireland (He had been Best man at Lemasses wedding).

His body was found 3 months after he had been abducted in Dublin by Sgt John O'Leary and Sgt Glynn from Rathfarnham police station. Sgt O'Leary in a report written on the day the body was discovered wrote: 'I found lying near a ditch, the remains of a man in a completely decomposed state. The skull was two yards from the rest of the body. The lower jaw was disconnected from the upper, the teeth and other small bones were scattered about'. Sgt O'Leary's report continued: 'In the vest I found rosary beads, an eyeglass and the glass of a wristlet watch. The hip pockets of the pants were turned out as if they had been searched'.

[Johns]

So there's a person of interest out there in need of new glasses.

Is there? How do we konw that they're not trying to identify the victim?

[Uncle Fester]

Is there? How do we konw that they're not trying to identify the victim?

Great point Johns!