Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 CA> You can make a magnifying glass from a paperclip looped small
 CA> enough to hold one drop of water. 

 MMC> THANKS!  That's one I'd overlooked that could be useful 'in the
 MMC> field' when the real glass is at home!

I need to find one of those pocket ones with the cover,  that's of decent quality...

I'm at the point where it's a useful thing to have handy,  when I'm not at
home,  and the last one I found that was that style was part of a package
that was so poor in quality that I gave up on actually using them and gave
them to the grandkids to play with.

Got one really decent one here that I picked up fairly inexpensively,  a
good 3-4" in size,  but they didn't have any pocket-style ones there.

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