The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 12, March 21, 2005, Article 12

LABAN HEATH'S MAGNIFYING LENSES

Heath's Counterfeit Detectors became much more popular
than the Hodges book, and are much more plentiful today.
Collectors of Heath Counterfeit Detectors will find an
article in the Winter 2005 issue of the Fractional Currency
Collectors Board (FCCB) of interest. Jerry Fochtman
writes:

"In our last Newsletter Benny Bolin challenged us to find
an example of the Heath folding microscope that is advertised
in the back of several editions of Heath's Counterfeit Detector.
As it turns out, there are three club members that have examples
of this magnifying glass! Two of the members were able to
provide graphic pictures showing the folding magnifying lens
and its box." The article pictures ads for "Heath's Improved
Adjustable Compound Microscope," two boxes (for two
difference size versions of the microscope, and two of the
microscopes themselves.

We first mentioned these in the June 8, 2003 (v6n3) issue
of The E-Sylum, in a discussion of Item 105 in George
Frederick Kolbe's 2003 Numismatic Bookseller fixed price
list. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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