Stamped, twice on underside, in rectangle: MF Stamped, once on underside: [lion passant]
Engraved, inside crest of tongs: JN
Silver
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allen and Warren Shelden Fund
79.20
Stamped, twice on underside, in rectangle: MF Stamped, once on underside: [lion passant]
Engraved, inside crest of tongs: JN
private collection (London, England). 1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Michel Forton, Sugar Tongs, ca. 1795, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth, Allen and Warren Shelden Fund, 79.20.