Tongs, nips, grape-shears, nut-crackers
asparagus servers, stamp tweezers and snuffers
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A pair of Bacchanalian pattern nutcrackers by Elizabeth Eaton, London 1851. Price: £1,350.00 |
2334 |
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A pair of snuffers with cast decoration by Wallis and Hayne, London 1814 crested with a pelican vulning, 3 chicks in a nest. Price: £595.00 |
1275 |
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A pair of cast grapeshears with matted vineleaf handles by William Eaton, London 1843. Price: £450.00 |
6711 |
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A pair of silver scissors, perhaps for grapes by Eley and Fearn, London 1814. Price: £375.00 |
2431 |
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A rococo pair of sugar nips, Dublin, circa 1770 with good early repair. Price: £340.00 |
5904 |
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A pair of ice tongs Sheffield, 1865 by Roberts and Belk. Price: £325.00 |
2946 |
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A pair of fiddle and thread sandwich tongs by H. & H. Lias, London 1864. Price: £270.00 |
1324 |
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A small engraved asparagus-eater of Indian interest by Elkington & Co., Birmingham 1898 crested for TATA over the motto 'HUMATAHUKHTA HVARSHTA'. Price:  |
2642 |
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A pair of spring-loaded steel snuffers with beaded silver handles 5.3 inches, unmarked circa 1770. Price: £245.00 |
7986 |
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A pair of sugar tongs of characteristic Bateman form by Peter and Jonathan Bateman, London 1790. Price: £225.00 |
2484 |
| A pair of floral cast sugarnips by Hilliard and Thomasson, Birmingham 1855. Price: £195.00 |
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A pair of silver-gilt stamp tweezers, London 1850 by Richard Sibley, crested with a boar. Price: £195.00 |
3248 |
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A pair of sugar-nips with shell bowls by Simeon Coley ?, London circa 1765 initialled AB. Price: £195.00 |
1575 |
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A pair of hourglass handled nutcrackers with close-plated jaws by Taylor and Perry, Birmingham 1829. Price: £185.00 |
2361 |
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A pair of OSP engraved asparagus tongs with shells crested for STARKIE circa 1780, engraved as a gift to John Grey Murray 1936 'For pulling chestnuts out of the fire'. Price: £175.00 John Gray Murray was a famous publisher. |
2388 |
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A pair of sugar nips, London 1739-1755 by IG probably for John Gorham, initialled BS. Price: £170.00 |
3128 |
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A pair of plain sugar-nips by GN (Grimwade 3589 untraced), London circa 1770. Price: £165.00 |
1395 |
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A pair of brightcut sugar tongs by Hester Bateman, London 1786-90 initialled JDF. Price: £155.00 |
2215 |
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A pair of sugarnips of standard form by John Gorham, London 1739-55, initialled E over IE. Price: £155.00 |
8642 |
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A pair of fiddle pattern sugar-tongs York, c.1820 by James Barber and William Whitwell crested with a demi-lion rampant. Price: £145.00 |
2968 |
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A pair of sugar tongs in mother-of-pearl and tortoise shell. circa1780. Price: £145.00 |
2862 |
| A plain pair of sugar tongs by Hester Bateman, London circa 1790 initialled B. Price: £120.00 |
6880 | |
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A pair of Old English thread sugar tongs, Edinburgh circa 1800 by T & E (apparently not present in list of Edinburgh makers), initialled H. Price: £85.00 |
3246 |
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A pair of Queen's pattern sugar-tongs with diamond-point heels London, 1856, Elizabeth Eaton crested with a wolf regardant for NASH or PASCOE. Price: £75.00 |
2962 |
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A pair of brightcut sugar tongs of small size and curious construction, London circa 1790. Price: £65.00 |
3219 |
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A pair of brightcut sugar tongs Exeter, circa 1790 by William Welch of Plymouth. Price: £52.00 |
3109 |
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A pair of fiddle, thread and shell sugartongs Exeter 1872 by the Williams brothers initialled G. Price: £52.00 |
2241 |
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A pair of brightcut sugartongs marked with thistle, duty-mark and A. Mc overstriking another, not present in list of Edinburgh makers, circa 1800. Price: £48.00 |
2312 |
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A small pair of Old English sugar tongs by Eley and Fearn, London 1815. Price: £45.00 |
1506 |
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A pair of wrigglework sugar tongs, London circa 1780 probably by William Sumner and Richard Crossley. Price: £42.00 |
3276 |
