Simple silver sugar tongs decorated with bright cut engraving in a pattern of narrow, curving, intersecting bands comprised of scallops and dots, at the curved end in an oval reserve engraved the initials HMB, the pointed bowls with minimal prick-dot engraving.

Sugar Tongs

Peter Bateman, Ann Bateman, William Bateman, London, England

1802/03

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