Ticket punch

A ticket punch (or control nippers) is a hand tool for permanently marking admission tickets and similar items of paper or card stock.

[citation needed] Ticket punches were also widely used in orienteering but have been replaced by needle punches (see control point in Orienteering).

Ticket punches also have decorative uses, involving both their perforations and their chads.

Die shapes for company logos and other proprietary images can be manufactured by special arrangement.

These are used to punch decorative holes in the margins of pieces of paper, and to make small confetti.

Ticket punch
Setright ticket machine , with built-in ticket punch, alongside the thumb
Railway passenger ticket punched multiple times, with at least 4 different die shapes: triangle, oval, and two sizes of tear drop
Chad produced by a railroad ticket punch.
A punched ticket issued by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport .