You want a few of these: Wood’s Powr-Grip Pick-Up Stick!
You’ve spent a long time making that daguerreotype plate nice and shiny, haven’t you? Don’t want to get any fingerprints on it, do you? Enter the Pick-Up Stick vacuum cup, model PU0950 . This thing is great. You can use this for moving the plates around, holding the glass while you clean it, etc.
The Pick-Up Stick eliminates fingerprints and cut fingers when lifting the glass to remove that last speck of dust before closing the back of a frame. The Pick-Up Stick uses a small, hand-held vacuum pump to attach to smooth, nonporous surfaces such as glass and Plexiglass®. It comes with a 1-1/4″ [32 mm] interchangeable rubber pad and a durable plastic handle. Optional pads are available in 3/4″ [20 mm] and 1″ [26 mm] diameters. To attach the Pick-Up Stick, press the vacuum pad against the glass and depress the plunger with your thumb. Once the Pick-Up Stick is attached, the corner of the glass can be lifted without finger smudges on the clean inside surface, allowing quick removal of annoying dust particles. In addition to lifting corners of framing glass, the Pick-Up Stick is an indispensable tool for precise placement of stained glass, small coins, lockets and other memorabilia.
