What Is Your Favorite Philatelic Tool?

if you asked me today I would say my missing tongs..the one set I have had for many years..David Giles I know you gave me a pair at Orapex..they went missing a while back..probably at a stamp show..about two nights ago I dropped my tongs on a carpeted floor..where would they go...??? sometimes I feel they are inches from my hand...my wife offered the use of hers..but its not the same !

I have a 2 1/2 year old grandson who visits often--he showed me his new hideaway for objects that suddenly disappear--the heating vent -he pulls the metal vent off and drops stuff down there! Yikes!
I pulled a few matchbox cars and a McDonald's toy out of there.

My favorite tool is my tongs and the most prized thing
for me these days is finding the time to sit down with my stamps!
Gussyboy1

Gussy,
I am glad we do not have any floor vents. My son would try to put something in them. He has already put grapes, little people, & cars in our surround sound subwoofer! I also wish I had more time for my stamps, Charlie keeps my wife & I hopping.

Hi,

I'd have to say my favorite tool is a magnifier. I sure enjoy being able to see the small details, secret marks, and microprinting on the stamps. I guess my perf gauge may be more useful though.

Dave N.
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I like this thingy...
It says "Roto-guage" on the bottom.

Update to post in December. I was just walking down the hall to the office and magically my missing set of tongs were just laying out in the middle of the hall.

They were not there 1 hour ago and now are and the girls are now fast asleep in bed. I just can not imagine where they have been hid for the last 7 months. Yeah right.

thats just to cool ,id have to say the digital blue microscope is my favorite,but my tongs are used the most

I would also say my tongs. :)

Everyone needs a good tongue, in order to properly lick
their hinges

Good one Bob

Only you would come up with that one. I still have to say my knowledgeable friends on this forum and my catalogues.

But a good tongue is invaluable also. I have to start Hinging my Aussie stamps today and thanks to trigg and the gang I have thosands.

Dianne

My eyes,
For without my eyes,
I would be without a stamp,
And Without a stamp,
I am nothing.

So my eyes it is,
And I say thanks for my eyes,
That I can see the beauty,
Of my stamps,
And they are beautiful.

After my eyes I have to say,
My computer,
For without my Computer,
I would not know you all,
My Stamp Buddies.

And if I did not know you all,
I would be nothing,
Save for an ordinary collector,
Of paper pieces,
With and without Perforations.

So I say thanks for my eyes,
Thanks for my Computer,
And thanks to Mr Hill,
For my stamps,
And thanks for my Philatelic tools.

Londonbus1

No that's another Mr Hill Like Michael my eyes though I have a jeweler's magnifier that you wear over your head as my old eyes aren't what they use to be,this site,my tongs and my Scott cataldogs .

Londonbus! For Poet Laureate!