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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 421458, member: 111"]Canterbury was in production for at least a century, there were variants in piece style, your small sugar tongs are more pleasing to my eye than the other design shown, which is factory production and probably more common than yours, it was made in four different sizes (Replacements designates their modified or 'hand-crafted' pieces as 'HC'). Ice tongs would be larger, the older ones often with one or both ends bowl-shaped - the tiny 'bon-bon' tongs were usually called called 'tête-à-tête' sugar tongs by Towle, for use in the smaller sized tête-à-tête tea or coffee sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 421458, member: 111"]Canterbury was in production for at least a century, there were variants in piece style, your small sugar tongs are more pleasing to my eye than the other design shown, which is factory production and probably more common than yours, it was made in four different sizes (Replacements designates their modified or 'hand-crafted' pieces as 'HC'). Ice tongs would be larger, the older ones often with one or both ends bowl-shaped - the tiny 'bon-bon' tongs were usually called called 'tête-à-tête' sugar tongs by Towle, for use in the smaller sized tête-à-tête tea or coffee sets. ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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