found another one for your perusal:
Ice tongs in trompe l'oeil basket weave pattern:

length just over 5 inches

Marked inside the top (and thus almost impossible to photograph):

Assayer Nikolay Nikolayevich Korbitsky (1886-1887 http://www.925-1000.com/Frussia_assay_02.html )
Moscow townmark
But who's the maker? "AK"?
JW