TWO PAIRS OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS

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TWO PAIRS OF SILVER SUGAR TONGS
THE FIRST MAKER'S MARK OF LOU RYERSON, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1800, THE SECOND MAKER'S MARK OF THOMAS SHIELDS, PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1775

Each U-shaped, the first bright-cut engraved with bands of wrigglework and vacant oval cartouches enclosing a central cartouche engraved with script initials ER, with oval tips, marked--6 1/2in. long; the second with crenilated and gadrooned rim, engraved on each side and on circular tips with a flowerhead, marked--5 1/2in. long
(2 oz. 10 dwt.) (2)