A PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS
A PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS

MAKER'S MARK OF JACOB HURD, BOSTON, CIRCA 1750-1756

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A PAIR OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS
Maker's mark of Jacob Hurd, Boston, circa 1750-1756
Scissor form, with spurred ring grips, shaped arms and shell tips, engraved on one side of hinge with initials M B, on the other side engraved with a crest, marked on inside of both tips with Kane mark D
4in. long; 1oz.
Hurd, Jacob

拍品專文

A similar pair of sugar tongs by Hurd, also marked in a rectangle inside tips, is in the collection of Historic Deerfield and is illustrated in Henry N. Flynt and Martha G. Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, 1968, fig. 101, p. 116.

Two pairs of sugar tongs made by Hurd have sold in these Rooms, one pair engraved with initial R sold June 12, 1982, lot 39A, the other pair engraved with initials LM sold January 26, 1985, lot 69.