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Maker(s):Parry & Musgrave
Culture:American
Title:sugar tongs
Date Made:1793-1795
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia
Measurements:overall: 5 3/4 in.; 14.605 cm
Accession Number:  HD 1998.16.9
Credit Line:Gift of Frederick C. Kossack
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Silver bow-type sugar tongs with bright-cut decoration and long oval, shell-shaped cups, which are marked "P&M" in a rectangle on the inside of each shaft for Rowland Parry (d.1796) and James Musgrave (d.1813), and engraved with the initials"JC" in script in a bright-cut oval on the bow. Parry and Musgrave were in partnership in Philadelphia, 1793-1795.

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