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Message:: [QUOTE="bluumz, post: 12136901, member: 649"]Just for clarity for those who may be unfamiliar...A quizzing glass has a single magnifying lens, usually on a short handle and generally worn on a chain. A lorgnette has two lenses, like spectacles, on a single lateral handle. "Ah, mother! How do you do? Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch."~John Thorpe in chapter 8 of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, written in 1798 or 1799, though unpublished until 1817 A "quiz" was an odd, eccentric, or peculiar thing or person. A "quizzing glass" was used for the fashionable, but often impolite, prying observation of others considered odd, eccentric, or peculiar.A "quizzer" was the person doing the "quizzing" of others. A true antique quizzing glass is a bucket list item for me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]