Definition

• Diminishing Glass.  An optical lens (the opposite of magnifying glass) by which an artist or others may look at an oversize model or pattern to view it in reduced scale. It is also called a reducing lens, It gives an artificial sense of distance from the work, hence in smaller scale.  Compare loupe.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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