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					| Irish Victorian Silver Sugar Tongs - Philip Weekes
																		
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						Reference: S11006 
						Period: Victorian 
						Year: 1844 
						Silversmith: Philip Weekes 
						Place: Dublin 
						Price: $ 160.00 						Weight: 67 grams 						Dimensions: 16.3 cm 						Condition: Excellent - do not appear to have been used. 
						 
						Description: A pair of antique Irish silver sugar tongs in the Fiddle pattern, with engraved initials MMG. The tongs are a good weight and in excellent condition. The hallmarks are very clear, they could not be better. Philip Weekes worked between 1816 and 1848, he was apprenticed to Samuel Neville. The makers mark has a dot between the letters, this mark does not appear in Irish Silver by Bennett.
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										Irish Victorian Silver Sugar Tongs Name	
 
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										Philip Weekes Dublin silver hallmarks 1844
 
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										MMG engraved silver initials
 
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										Irish Victorian Silver Sugar Tongs  - scale
 
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