Back to the Future Remix by Eclectic Method

For extinguishing candle flames?

Tongs for communion wafers.

Its a tuning fork.... you know, for tuning things.

Sugar tongs, for picking up individual sugar cubes.

Tongs for sugar.

Tuning tongs for extinguishing sugared communion wafers.

tongs for grabbing babies out da uteruz

Just to complete the classsic tong series: ice tongs

sugar cube tongs

Almost forgot asperagas tongs.

For putting sugar in the Queen's tea.

it's a sugar cube grabber.

Infinite reflection golden mirrors for gnomes and pixies.
Juste stand in the middle and be amazed by the golden awesomeness !

Tong for getting toast out of the fireplace?

Pipe tongs, used to light pipe with ember from fireplace.

Ice cube tongs

Artery/vein tongs

I'm fairly certain that's an instrument of torture.

It's tongs for picking up coals for a hookah

Tweezers, for removing whatever facial or body hair might need to be plucked.

Pete Tongs?

Tuning fork for banannas

Medical tongs, to hold a person's tongue.

Tongs for picking up hot towels

hot coal picker uppers

i think a cigarette lighter

Arm attachment for an one armed doctor.
"Turn your head and cough while I move dees out the way"

antique nose plug for ye olde synchronised swimmers

fire tongs for a fireplace. Picking up and moving the wood.

Tongs for holding one's tongue in the instance of seizure.

This is an example of tongs which were used to assist in difficult child birth.

for abortion.

coal tongs for a fireplace.

Papal nose pinchers. For when His Holiness has to bless the smelliest of peoples.

Its very clearly the wishbone from a steampunk turkey from this thanksgiving...

They are indeed tongs, but more likely to be used for picking up sugar cubes for coffee (saw it in a movie once). It has a hinge so it's definately no tuning fork.

They are indeed tongs, but more likely to be used for picking up sugar cubes for coffee (saw it in a movie once). It has a hinge so it's definately no tuning fork. (Apparently there is a fault in the comments....when writing this I only see the first three posts before this...)

it'a a sugar spoon, for tea time.

(I mean, a sugar cube tong's spoon, more precisely)

Its foreskin tongs. So the rabbi can get a good hold of your shmeckel

Tongs for moving Charcoal used in Hookahs or Incense Burners.

fireplace tongs

Asparagus tongs.

Looks like a pair of coal tongs, used for picking up live coals to restack them in the fireplace, add a lump of coal to a fire, or to transfer live coals to something else, such as putting them into a bedwarmer.

For communion wafers.

I'm going to guess.. Forceps?

Cotton ball tongs

Tweezers.
Had one for years- but since my body stopped growing all those extra's every time I pulled them out, I finally sold mine on ebay a year ago or so.

Is used tweeze off or out all those third and fourth legs and arms and to tweeze out all those over-extra digits and eyes.

This was from back before they had flush toilets. Mr or Ms Royalty would do their thing in a pot. Then the servant would come in and use these tongs to remove the royal log. It was a bit trickier on the morning following taco night, but the servants got good at it.

It looks like the tongs used for handling charcoal on a hookah pipe.

A lamp harp.

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I know what I would us it for...Roach clip.

that, is a telescope

it's snuff tongs for getting that perfect pinch of the finest snuff from that jewelled snuffbox in your vest pocket.

It is a veterinary instrument for feeding pills to horses. I think it's called a baller.

Firepace tongs for embers/coals.

Tea Tongs.

Jabba wanga wanga nipple pinchers?
Or tongs from a Absinthe kit for the sugar cubes.

It's a Victorian Pickle Castor, the hook at the top is to hang on the side of teh jar.

They are a set of ceremonial tongs used by Freemasons. Should you find yourself having dinner at a masonic lodge (or the home of a lodge's primate) and encounter a an overcooked lump of something foul and unchewable in your stew, called a 'grimsby', know that it was placed there deliberately to test you. (If you are not at a Masonic lodge, it may simply be the result of careless cookery.) You must approach your host, hopping on one foot, and perform the secret Masonic handshake. He is obliged to hand over the tongs, and you must then use them to extract the grimsby. Alternately, you may attempt to swallow the grimsby without comment. But your host knows it was in there, and that you didn't follow proper procedure, so don't expect to be invited back!

Clearly a Victorian era pubic hair straightener. Even brothel workers have their vanity. :p

These are the personal tweezers of the infamous Russian masochist Ivan Rippanippelov.

It may sound horrible... but I read a story by Stephen King where he described such a device used by 19th century doctors to hold the head of white mice while operating without anestethic...

Rice tongs. Obviously.

One thing that sucks about most of these contests is that often there's no indication of size...add a ruler, or a coin to the photo, FFS!

They're 9 inches (about 20cm) long.

I know "sugar-tongs" has been said, but I can one-up all previous answers. The most correct answer is: sugar-tongs for drinking absinthe.

Coal tongs for sure. Christ, I remember the coal man delivering coal to our cellar when I was a kid in the 60's. Coal tongs were always brass.

A tong to give warm, moist towels to people so they can clean their hands (after a dinner).

Electro-shock therapy for your hamster. Cure that rodent Tourett's once and for all.

Im sorry.
I know what those are..
They used them on me..
NOT long ago those were used to Extricate a child during BIRTH..

@BRAINYBRIAN

LOL HE SAID NIPPLE

They are Roman Doctor's Surgical tongs

It's a nose tong once used to ensure that the patient breathes through his mouth.

Anyone with a working knowledge of 19th century Proctology knows that it is a set of Suppository Depository Tongs.

pimple popper

that looks like a tuning fork... we use those in physics class
we actually played twinkle twinkle little star today with tuning forks for the last day of classes :D

Used to pinch your nostrils shut "Plug your nose".

tuning fork for testing conductive hearing loss/

This is a rare example of some early experimental iPod headphones.

Used for placing sugar cubes in absinthe, I think.

Is it a tongue tong?

Moving wood, in a fireplace.

A device for extracting stuck "connect 4" pieces

Tongs for grabbing babies' heads as they're being born?

a nose plug: it holds your nose for people who have oily noses, cause they don't want to touch their skin but have to plug thier noses.

Hard to tell the scale but they look like fireplace tongs for moving logs around.

A portable practise frame for very small athletes who perform on the paraller bars and rings

Double-ended Ear-wax spoon.

It's actually a key-chain. On the go for all your tong-ing needs while out and about.

elephant speculum

Well.
The story started with an old man on a mountain. Every Wednesday and Saturday he would walk down to the river to get some more water. On Wednesdays, he would meet a snake, who would continually bother him until he got back in his home. The old man's home also got struck by lightning alot. He had long ago realized this issue, but had no idea what to do. One Saturday, he brought a metal object down to the river, and left it at a tree trunk. The next Wednesday, he picked it up, and went home with it. The snake saw, and asked what it was for, but the old man told him he had three shots to guess what it was, then he would show the snake.
"Tongs?"
"No."
"Dowsing rod?"
"Nope."
"Some sort of probe?"
"Not even close."
"What is it then?!"
The old man then proceeded to bludgeon the snake to death.
The End

A tuning fork for the extremely tone deaf.

Maybe it's a dowsing rod to find water?

Magical Tongs of Ultamite Pinching and Holding,+3.

Primitive spork

Thong tongs

19th Century Tiffanys Royal Queen Nose Pincher.

tongs used by a matre de... at one of those fancy shmacy dining rooms

Tongue tongs? As in, used to pull the tongue out to examine tonsils?