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Rare 1939 Worlds Fair Trylon/Perisphere Charm: Sterling, Stanhope (w/Clear Image)
About 5/8\" wide and 13/16\"in height
It is made of sterling silver and features a built-in Stanhope lens inside the spherical Perisphere component, which contains a micro-photograph viewable when held up to the eye. The phrase \"The City of Tomorrow\" was the definitive theme of the 1939 exposition. Inside the scope is a micro-photograph of that exact exhibit of a futuristic diorama of a planned utopian city.
René Dagron\'s legacy workshop in France was the world capital for high-quality Stanhope lens manufacturing. American jewelers (most notably Art Deco designer Walter Lampl) imported the tiny glass lenses directly from France and set them into American-crafted sterling silver souvenir castings..
