| DESCRIPTION |
Attractive and early pair of Georgian cast silver sugar tongs with a monogram engraved bow and small trilobe grips. |
| SILVERSMITH |
unregistered script mark Grimwade 3685 |
| DATE or HALLMARK |
circa 1771 |
| ASSAY OFFICE |
London |
| WEIGHT in GRAMS |
35 |
| LENGTH in INCHES |
5 ¼ |
| SILVER STANDARD |
.925 sterling silver |
| OVERALL CONDITION |
excellent, perfect bow spring action, no repairs, one very slight fracture at the same piercing on each arm. |
| FAULTS |
18th century cast silver fractures easily and so was not the ideal choice for the making of sugar tongs. This is probably why, having only just displaced from fashion the cast silver sugar nips by around 1770, they were
themselves superseded by the far more robust one piece with sprung bow type by around 1780. It very rare to find cast arm tongs without repairs or fractures. |
