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John Monteith and Robert Monteith

Sugar Tongs

1815

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Sugar Tongs

1815

Physical Qualities Silver, 6 1/8 x 1 7/8 x 3/4 in. (15.6 x 4.8 x 1.9 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Virginia P.B. White, Baltimore
Object Number 1933.54.129
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Virginia Purviance Bonsal White (1869-1955), Baltimore, MD
AMW Reinstallation 2014

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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. 1310, ill.

Markings: Engraved: "I.L.T" (T may be "J") Scratched: "WV 5" Stamped: R.M. in square, Baltimore mark, date mark (G), profile mark

Maker

John Monteith

1813–1848

American, working Baltimore, 1814-1849
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Maker

Robert Monteith

1813–1848

American, working Baltimore, 1814-1849
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