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Maker(s):Cook, Benjamin Ely
Culture:American (1803-1900)
Title:sugar tongs
Date Made:1833-1858
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Northampton
Measurements:overall: 5 5/8 in; 14.2875 cm
Accession Number:  HD 61.572
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Silver bow-type sugar tongs with scalloped-shaped cups, which is marked "B.E. COOK" in a rectangle on the back for Benjamin Ely Cook (1803-1900) of Northampton, and engraved with the initials "AD" in script on the fiddle-neck arms. The son of Dr. George W. Cook and Margaret Teller Cook of Hyde Park, New York, Benjamin E. Cook married Elizabeth Christine Griffin in 1827 in Hudson, NY, where he was apprenticed to her father, Isaiah Griffin (1777-1863); he also worked for Abram Fellows & Co. in Troy, NY. In 1827, Cook moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he worked on Shop Row in partnership with Nathan Storrs (1768-1839) between 1827 and 1833; by himself from 1833-1858; and with his son, Benjamin E. Cook, Jr., as B. E. Cook & Son from 1858-1900.

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