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Polly Posts: 1971 |
posted 03-27-2012 01:27 PM
  
I bought two pairs of scissors-style tea tongs the weekend before last--what I think of as my Wild Spoon and Tong Weekend--and I thought you guys might be interested in seeing one of them. It's the one on the right in this photo: I showed a photo to Dr. David Shlosberg of tea tong fame, who got rather excited about the mark. He tells me this is the first entered mark of tea-tong specialist Gawen Nash, entered on July 1, 1724, and since the tongs also have the lion passant in the oval punch that was only used in 1724 and 1725, he feels these tongs are from that date. He says this is the only pair of tongs he has seen with Gawen Nash's first mark on them. Here is the mark: IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1971 |
posted 03-27-2012 01:29 PM
Here is the lion on the other end of the tongs, along with a monogram:  The ends have a lovely and distinctive bit of decoration: IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 03-27-2012 01:39 PM
What a haul you had that weekend! This one is really special. IP: Logged |
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agphile Posts: 798 |
posted 03-27-2012 03:32 PM
I like the bowl decoration - feel the envy as I type these words. And it is good to be able to date them so well despite the lack of a date letter on these items, both for its own sake and because it helps when trying to date other tongs of similar form. Congratulations on another nice find. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1971 |
posted 03-27-2012 03:48 PM
Thank you, swarter and agphile. IP: Logged |
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