Sugar Tongs

c. 1800

Scroll

George Aiken

Sugar Tongs

c. 1800

Physical Qualities Silver, 6 x 1 3/4 x 7/8 in. (15.2 x 4.4 x 2.2 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore

Object Number 1933.54.101

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD

Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 63.

Markings: marks: "WV 20" engraved on interior "RAik" ?? stamped on interior (R. Aiken?) "P" engraved on end of tongs (possibly "R", difficult to say because of flaw)