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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 02-19-2020 12:11 AM
  
Below are a pair of sugar tongs by the partnership of Maltby Pelletreau, John Bennett and D.C. Clarke of New York, N.Y. with the basket of flowers pattern. They are just under 7 inches long and almost big enough to use for ice cubes. An American physician, John Gorrie, built a refrigerator in 1844 to make ice to cool the air for his yellow fever patients. Dr. Gorrie may have also invented the first ice cube tray in its current form. The Pelletreau partnership was together in 1825 and 1826 so this was made well before ice cubes were invented and most likely it was made for lumps of sugar.    I got these tongs out today after talking to John McGrew. He is going to publish a book on the basket of flowers pattern, but more importantly he still has copies of his book on Manufacturers’ Marks on American coin silver. His phone number is 717/632-6244. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-21-2020 04:09 PM
Beautiful! I bought a back issue of the copy of Silver Mag with his essay about Basket of Flowers--they may still have copies. Yes, definitely sugar rather than ice (but nowadays perhaps more useful for ice). IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 02-22-2020 01:23 AM
 Tongs are still useful for Stevia packets or other sweeteners. I think I always feel better if there are a couple of tongs laying around whether or not they are used. Dr. McGrew, if I recall correctly, said there were about 150 different dies used for the basket of flowers pattern. This pattern was popular at the same time the sheaf of wheat pattern was popular, but from what I have seen more of the flowers were made than the wheat. I do not recall seeing either pattern in anything but spoons, tongs and ladles. IP: Logged |
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