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Item: Sugar Nips Description: "Polo
mint" style hinge Hallmark: Inverness circa 1760 by Robert
Anderson Dimensions: 126mm long; 37g weight
Comments: An extremely rare form of nips with
maker's mark only struck to the inside of both grips.
Provenance: The
Albert Collection where they are attributed to this Scottish Provincial
maker. These nips are also mentioned in the index of "Eighteenth Century
Silver Tea Tongs" by Dr David
Shlosberg where they are noted as being one of only two pairs of Scottish
Provincial sugar nips to have been discovered.
Price: SOLD
Ref. No.: FH/6318
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