Silver sugar tongs - can you help identify - A&D

Tongtwister · Post by **Tongtwister** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:39 pm

Hi - can you help identify these tongs. I cannot find a reference to the maker or the strange "hour-glass" mark anywhere.

Thanks

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Neruda · Post by **Neruda** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:38 am

Your tongs are by Charles James Allen & Sidney Darwin of Sheffield - silverplate, probably late 19th or early 20th century

Tongtwister · Post by **Tongtwister** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:40 am

Thanks very much, I was beginning to despair of ever finding out what they are.

Regards