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Lot 118
Sale 1226 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Oct 4, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$8,000 -
12,000
Price Realized
$11,340
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A Pair of American Silver Sugar Tongs
Paul Revere, Boston, Massachusetts, 1734-1818
marked REVERE within rectangle.
with undulating thread engraving and monogram AD for Ann Maria Dodd (1819-1897).
14 dwt
Length 6 inches.
Tongs likely monogrammed by another silversmith as Revere died in 1818, twenty-seven years before Ann Maria's wedding to luxury goods merchant William Bellamy (1801-1874) on 13 March 1845, when she was given the tongs by her grandfather, Timothy Dodd, Jr. (1753-1838), the original owner.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.