(SECURED BY LETTERS PATENT.)

Is an entirely New and Original Invention for enabling Collectors to Mount Stamps without handling them, and is a multum in parvo of Philatelic requisites.

It consists of a pair of broad-headed flat metal tongs, one of which is fitted with a solid wedge. The object of this is to permit the free end of a mount held by the tong to be bent over, moistened, applied to the back of the stamp, and pressed down, and the mount can then be released, the stamp lifted, the other end of the mount moistened, and the stamp fastened thereby on the page. In the handle is inserted a glass of high magnifying power. On one side of the middle part is a millimÈtre scale (divided to half millimÈtres), and on the other a two-inch scale (divided to sixteenths), both accurately marked off. The stamp can be firmly held along either scale by the tongs. The tongs are made of solid nickel, polished, and fit into a handsome velvet-lined case, the size of which, when closed, is slightly less than 6 inches long, 1-3/4 inches wide, and only 1/2 inch thick.

PRICE, with case complete, 2/6; post-free, 2/7; abroad, 3/9.

SECOND EDITION. REVISED TO DATE.

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