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SUGAR TONGS
TEA TONGS
SUGAR NIPS
The silver tea tongs (called also silver sugar tongs or silver sugar nips) were used for lifting sugar pieces added to tea
cups. About 1720 this artefacts assumed a scissors shape, succeeded after 1770 by more functional bow type
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The basic forms in which they were made are:
- fire tongs, of two arms joined at one end by a pivot
- scissors tongs, of two arms pivoting at the centre, in the form of a pair of scissors (tea
tongs or sugar nips)
- bow tongs, of one piece of metal bent in U-shape forming two spring arms
The lenght of the sugar tongs ranges from 10 to 15 cm. and the arms are decorated in various styles
(embossing, engraving, chasing, pierced work or bright cut)
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