MARK OF JACOB HURD, BOSTON, 1735-45

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A PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS
MARK OF JACOB HURD, BOSTON, 1735-45
Of typical scissor form, with shaped handles and arms, with rounded tips, engraved with initial R, marked on one arm with Kane mark D
4 ½ in. (11.3 cm.) long; 1 oz. (40 gr.)

Provenance

Christie's, New York, 12 June 1982, lot 39A

Literature

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Goldsmiths, 1998, p. 604

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Lot Essay

Two related pairs of sugar tongs by Jacob Hurd are in the collections of Historic Deerfield and the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated in Henry N. Flynt and Martha G. Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, 1968, fig. 101, p. 116, and Phillip M. Johnston, Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994, p. 82.

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