Wanted: Showgard Style 908 Stamp Tongs

Nice find!

It could be an optical illusion, but it looks like the inside surfaces of the points on those tweezers are textured, which would be common on tweezers. Tongs will typically have smooth tip surfaces.

Normally there is some texturing on the watch repair items for a better part grip.

Drats you are correct texturing.

Gonna take some grinding and filing and customizing. Yikes. Where is that box of 908's hiding? Behind the box of Dennisons.

Dennisons are easy. I've seen several dealers with vintage Dennisons at recent shows... 908s not so much.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1967645422...08+stamp+ton Same "optical illusion" as above on these 902 ???

Hi revenuecollector , a few years ago when I revved up my interest in stamp collecting I would have laughed over your hunt for "the perfect stamp tongs".
But what did I know back then? Now that I have been handling thousands of stamps, I can appreciate your emphasis on the importance of the right tongs.
While pulling old hinges from purchased stamps, loosening them from countless old purchased album pages, I find I'm often frustrated by the lack of grasping ability using my PRINZ SOLINGEN TONGS -- sadly, my only stamp handling tool. Me thinks it's time to purchase another tool that allows me to better remove hinges.
Any favorites you might recommend (that are easily available)?

While I was working on my truck the other day, and opened up a drawer of my tool cabinet, lo and behold, I found something. A set of 5 precision tweezers that I forgot I purchased last year from PrincessAuto.com Made of stainless steel, only 4.75" long but fine ground polished finish on inside and without grips or ridges. And boy are they sharp, like darts. And the sale price was only $2.99 cdn, $2.00us, regularily $4.99cdn. Later I tried the pointed pairs, and I was able to easily manipulate the stamp with a secure hold and no damages. Cant find that number on their website but similar item with their brand name is now $8.99cdn. Similar black ones are 17.00.!