Single Eye Loupes

The other day the sun was shining bright directly on to the big magnifier, and I saw the tell tale bright spot on the black mat underneath it. I remembered how these can start a fire and immediately covered it up!

 

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Sterling silver?
Here is one that I have.

 

Plated, but yes. That's a nice one too! I find these old pieces very interesting, as well as useful

 

I see.... So that is your "go-to" magnification then. I thought you were saying you hadn't used it in years. So you see the advantage in using these then.

 

I'm sure a lot of house fires start because someone leaves a magnifying glass or pair of reading glasses set the wrong way and when the sun eventually shines on them during the day.....poof!

 

If you buy one get a good one. The clarity on these vary. I like the heft and feel of it in my hand. The other thing is you can put it directly to your eye then move the coin into focus.

 

I used this old Bausch & Lomb jeweler's loupe for fine details, but since I got that big old 4" glass, haven't used it as much. I think it's 3 or 5x.

 

Me, too. On a bright, green lanyard (from Provident Metals) so I can easily find it. I can see it on my desk right now, actually.

 

I do have a man cave and can access my 4 hard wired cameras that are outside and one wireless in the kitchen pointed at the entrance. All are accessible in my cave, on my tablet and on a 15" screen in my bedroom. The hard wired camera wiring are also enclosed in electrical steel conduit.

 

You can go to the 99 cent store and buy a pair of glasses with the highest diopter number and with gentle pressure pop out the side you want normal vision , the other side will give you the magnification without using your 'brow' muscles which can lead to headaches. Jim

 

Get a proper monocle! Gold rimmed, with a chain attached to your pocket. It will instantly confer upon you an air of class, sophistication, and a touch of eccentricity. More so if you've recently waxed your moustache.

 

I'd have it in a secret room, where the only way in is by way of trick bookshelves or equivalent. Yeah, I used to watch a lot of Batman when I was a kid. The late 60's television series.

 

Many years ago, my then girlfriend's dad after getting to like me, showed me his watch and jewelry shop in his basement. I believe this man was some sort of genius, although he literally worked his entire life in a limestone quarry.

He built his own house, then later, a detached garage about 50 feet away.

One day around Thanksgiving, after I was engaged to his daughter, he showed me a secret door he had built into a wall in the basement, in a bookshelf.

He reached into the shelf, turned a handle, and opened the door to a hidden underground tunnel to the garage. The garage had a hidden basement and second story that could only be accessed through the concrete tunnel he built.

In that basement was a complete workshop for anything you could imagine at the time.

It was pretty amazing!

 

Was his name Q?

 

That's awesome. Actually reminds me of Hogan's Hero's.

 

His name was Z, short for a long unpronounceable Polish name!

 

I was being facetious while referencing Q from James Bond

 

I have a B&L 2x/3x glass and a B&L 7x Hastings Triplet loupe. I use the loupe for Lincoln Cent BIEs, which is pretty much the only minutea that interests me.Everything else is usually the glass. I bought it in 1981 for $5 at the eye glasses shop where I was getting contact lenses. The contacts sucked but the glass has been wonderful.

 

A little excited, as well.

 

I have two, one for work, one for home.



They were sold to me as gem and mineral loupes. I've always been a bit of a rock hound. They do the job quite well on coins, too.