Lot 229
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A PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS

Details
A PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL REVERE, BOSTON, CIRCA 1795-1800

Spring form, with shell tips and wrigglework and bead borders, engraved with script initial R, marked with Buhler mark e--5 3/4in. long
(1 oz. 10 dwt.)
Provenance
Pauline Revere Thayer (Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer ), great grandaughter of Paul Revere

Lot Essay

Two nearly identical pairs of tongs by Revere, also owned by Pauline Revere Thayer, one with Buhler mark e and the other mark d, are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (illus. in Kathryn C. Buhler, American Silver, 1972, figs. 411 and 412, p.462).