Tongs, Sugar

Sugar tongs Tapererd arms with ovoid tips Bright cut border on edges and “C” in feathered script engraved lengthwise on bow Mark: “R.R” stamped in rectangle inside both arms. Handwritten antiquarian note with gift indicates “Sugar Tongs/ by Robert Ross/Frederica” Examples by maker published in “Delaware Silver, the Col. Kenneth P. & Regina I. Brown Collection” by Donald L. Fennimore and Louisa D. Bartlett, Published by the Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE, 2008. See pp. 276 and p. 345.