Description:
Silver scissors-type sugar tongs or sugar nippers with shell-shaped cups, which are marked "JF" in script in a serrated rectangle for John Frost I and a lion passant. John Frost was apprenticed in 1750, free in 1757, and listed as bankrupt as silversmith, Cornhill, February 1758. According to the donor, her great greatfather Robert Jeanneret brought these tongs with him when he moved from London, England to London, Ontario in 1841. The tongs descended to the donor's grandmother Ann Jeanneret of Ligonier, Indiana, who left them to her aunt, Mary Jeanneret of Ligonier, and then to the donor's sister, Connie Pollard. According to Beth Wees, sugar tongs of this type were the most popular form during the middle decades of the 18th century and relatively few are fully marked. Boxed sets of six or twelve teaspoons, a strainer spoon, and a pair of sugar nippers were supplied as early as the 1720s. They were often arranged in a fitted case with pairs of tea canisters,a sugar bowl, and more rarely a cream jug and knives, to create a convenient tea equippage.
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