Sugar tongs

1875–1900

Place madeUnited States, North America

Silver

Overall: 7/8 × 5 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (2.2 × 14 × 4.4 cm)

Gift of Lena Cadwalader Evans

1937.121

DescriptionSilver Colonial Revival sugar tongs with oval fingerholes applied to rectangular arms with squared shoulders; pivot hinges located where the arms cross in the center and at the ends where they attach to a second set of arms that cross and have a pivot hinge in the center; shell form grips; shoulders engraved, "L" and "C" in script.

Markingsengraved: on the shoulders: "L" and "C" in script

ClassificationsSILVER