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It's once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is? Can you make up something interesting?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

For more clues, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: Steve Pauk was the first one to know these are sniper's glasses; they were specifically made for the sharpshooters of the Civil War.  However, he did not select a t-shirt. The funniest answer came from Randall: "Eye training glasses, for G-men in the 30's. They helped develop that penetrating gaze that made the two-bit punks squirm like a toad in a vice while they were getting 'the treatment.'" Randall wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop!

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Visual Glasses
Invented in 1756 by Benjamin Martin, these were basically the first sunglasses.

They were patented in 1839 by Charles Jachan who wrote "The object of my invention is to protect the eye from too strong a light as much as possible, and this I effect by leaving only a small portion of the surface of the glasses polished and surrounding it with a ground space extending to the circumference or outside rim, intended to obstruct the passage of the rays of light and soften their effect upon the eye, leaving that portion opposite the pupil a small clear circular space."

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Victorian Barbie tanning glasses......you know that's why she's blind right......a woman that beautiful can't have it all you know....eyesight, now that is a gift to be proud of.

med....light blue....when life gives you mold.
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I believe steve Pauk has the right answer.. (in case "civil war" was not necessary)

However at a first glance i thougt the glasses where for correcting strabismus...

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They are glasses for voyeurs. The opaqued edges make everything seem as if they are viewing it through a peephole.

If I only had brains. black 2xl
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(to be read in the voice of Gene from "Bob's Burgers")

It's a pair of glasses! With yellow lenses! Alright, yellow lenses! Yellow, yellow, yellow, yay!

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I Make My Own Dance Moves, Large, Military Green
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Those are the precursor to microscopes. The circle in the center magnifies things, while the rest of the lens is meant to help reduce light to make the magnified part more clear.

What happens at grandma's XL blue
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Instead of going thru the labor of repainting a room, just put these amber colored glasses on. It'll turn a red room orange, a blue room green. Think of the possibilities!

Break Wind, X-Large, Black
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John Lennon once said "Everything is clearer when you are in love." He must have been wearing these when he married Yoko Ono.

Break Wind, X-Large, Black
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I'm just guessing, but looks like eyeglasses for some kind of astigmatism, where a diformation in the cornea makes blurry images, but by seeing from small orifices makes you see fine.
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When Superman’s girlfriend, Lois Lane, discovered that he had x-ray vision, she gave him this custom made glasses that prevented his eyes to browse around but only look straight or at her when they went out.

Pigeon bomber, M , Natural
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Corrective vision lenses for people who see through rose-colored glasses to help them see the world with more pulp.

I Wanna Be A Nonconformist Like Everyone Else
Black XL
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They are a pair of 3D glasses from the 19th century, enabling you to see the real true to life sepia tones in 3D.

If I only had brains, black 2xl
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Eye training glasses, for G-men in the 30's. They helped develop that penetrating gaze that made the two-bit punks squirm like a toad in a vice while they were getting 'the treatment.'.

Dad, the Myth, THe Man, the Legend, XL grey
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These specs where discovered but not utilized during the filming of the Nicholas Cage Movie National Treasure, It was determined that Benjamin Franklin developed the glasses for urologists to better examine urine samples by filtering out the yellow optical wavelength.

I'm Irish I only look sweet & innocent (small)
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These were specially made for and used when lady Godiva strolled thru town on the horse- So as to not see too much of her naughty bits.
protect your nuts 2 xl
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They are listed in the 1891 Montgonery Wards Catalog as Target Shooting glasses. Maybe to train the eye on the sights of the rifle or shotgun. Anyway, they were 28 cents each.
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In the old days, antiques weren't what they are now, and shooting galleries were all the rage. The most popular being the "antique shooting" galleries. That's right, you could shoot at fine china plates and stemware, but, they made you wear these funny yellow glasses, or they wouldn't let you do it. You guessed it, these are "antique shooting" glasses. If you hit 3 plates in a row you won a neat-o-rama t-shirt.
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It could also be special eyewear for Natural horsemanship Jockes, to show the horses that they are not the only one looking stupid carrying Blinders (also known as blinkers or winkers)...

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The first version of Zaphod Beeblebrox'

"Peril Sensitive Sunglasses"

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

They are acutally in a half closed state preventing you from seeing anything within the periphery that might alarm you...

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