Tongs Collection

Can Openers, Skewers Etc
Can openers, sharpening steels, cutlet bats/beaters, larding pins, trussing needles, hatchet, skewers and steak tongs

Sri Lanka - Hindu Ascetic - Incredibly long hair
Sri Lanka - Hindu Ascetic Sadhu with incredibly long hair, worn in thick dreadlocks called jata. Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Victorian items 1896
A selection of Victorian household items; twin oil and vinegar bottles, solid silver candlestick holders, ornate mounted hair brush, cut crystal scent bottle, chased silver lamp with burner

Barbers shop with Monkeys and Cats. Teniers, Abraham (1629-1670). Oil on copper

Advert for Harrods silverware 1937
Advertisement for siverware for Harrods to celebrate the Coronation Year including Silver- salver, entree dish, hot water jug, coaster, asparagus tongs, pair of candlesticks

A Barber Distracted
THE RED-HOT POLITICIAN A barber is more absorbed in the latest political gossip than his hot curling tongs, with painful results for his singed customer

Medieval comedian playing bellows and tongs
Vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle, 14th century manuscript. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Examples of 18th century bandages, tongs and sutures
Examples of 18th century bandages 1, bec-de-corbin tongs 2, bec-de-canne tongs 4, bullet-remover tongs 4, and various sutures 5-11

Fire companion set
Chromed metal fire tongs with a thistle-shaped knop, from an Ianthe fire companion set, made in England c.1930. Date: c.1930-1939

White Star Line, asparagus tongs and tea strainer
White Star Line, First Class silver plated asparagus tongs and Cunard White Star plated tea strainer

White Star Line - assorted silver plated cutlery
White Star Line - assorted silver plated flatware cutlery (all marked). One fish knife, two table knives, one fish fork, two table forks, one table knife, one fork (fruit or cake), one sugar tongs

White Star Line - Elkington plate asparagus tongs. Date: early 20th century

White Star Line - Elkington sugar bowl and tongs
White Star Line - Elkington plate First Class sugar bowl and tongs

Illustration of Wedding presents, from Mappin and Webb
Wedding presents, from Mappin and Webb. Illustration showing, clock with barometer, tongs, serving dish and sauce boat, silver vase, and butter dish

Masonry and sculpture tools and equipment
Italian Masonry and sculpture tools and equipment on display Date: circa 1920s

A French barber puts his male client's hair into curling papers Date: 1840

Comic postcard, Polite table manners Date: 20th century

The ascent of Mont Blanc made easy: a suggestion to the followers of Mr Albert Smith. A very relaxed Victorian man is transported to the top of the mountain on a giant pair of retractable mechanical

Man and woman lost in the countryside in a night storm with a servant holding a lantern. Miseries of the Country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Harrods advert, Hairdressing, Manicure and Chiropody
Harrods Stores advert, Hairdressing, Manicure and Chiropody Departments, Brompton Road, London SW. 1897

Cutlery, salad servers, tongs, etc
Cutlery, salad servers, sugar tongs, bread knife, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

King David playing handbells from a 14th century manuscript
King David playing handbells with hammers from a 14th century manuscript of his psalms, with a vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle

Machinery for making cutlery, 18th century
Machinery for making cutlery: troughs of a grinding mill, tongs for pressing knife handles, pressing vice and spring drill

Blacksmith using hammer and tongs to beat a piece of red-hot iron heated in a forge. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

Christmas present - Dutch doll sugar tongs 1922
Novelty sterling silver Dutch doll sugar tongs with enamelled face, available by Vickery of Regent Street. 1922

A Poker, A Shovel, a Pair of Tongs and a Brush
Smiling Fireplace tools - A Poker, A Shovel, a Pair of Tongs and a Brush. Date: 1922

Saint Apollonia by Piero della Francesca (1416-1492) - Umbrian - painted on wood, apparently formed part of a polyptych. Date: 1462

TOILET / HAIR
Using tongs and paper to style hair Date: 19th Century

Brass tongs and shovel
Brass tongs, with a lobed stem, curved bracket and a ring on the top. Manufactured in England, c.1650-1700. Date: 1650-1700

Sugar tongs, detail
A pair of silver sugar tongs, made in London by Joseph Drake, c.1730-1739. Date: 1730-1739

Fire tongs
Brass fire tongs, the arms with turned shafts featuring three knops and a ball knop at the top, part of a set of fire tools made in England c.1650-1700. Date: c.1650-1700

Fire shovel
Brass fire shovel with a turned shaft featuring three knops, a ball knop at the the top, and a bell-shaped pan, part of a set of fire tools made in England c.1650-1700. Date: c.1650-1700

Set of fire tools
Brass and wrought iron poker with a turned shaft featuring three knops and a ball knop at the top, part of a set of fire tools made in England c.1650-1700. Date: c.1650-1700

Sad irons, curling and goffering irons
A selection of home appliances, as featured in a catalogue. A sad iron and stand, a polishing iron, a spirit iron, a hat iron for ironing brims and a Dalli box iron are pictured

St Dunstan & the Devil
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and Saint Artists sometimes depicted him holding the devil by the nose with a pair of tongs, as here Date: 924 - 988

Advert for Mappin Brothers solid silver items 1895
Selection of decorative items available from Mappin Brothers in Regent Street. 1895

Poorly puppy by the fire - His First Trouble by G E Studdy
His First Trouble by G E Studdy - A poorly puppy, wrapped up warm by the fire staring across to his medicine on the hearth with apprehension. Date: 1912

WW2 Comic Postcard - Short Wave
WW2 - Comic Postcard - Short Wave! A blonde girl has her hair curled into a short wave by a fellow ATS member with some curling tongs - a play on the short wave radio craze

Electro silver plated goods, Plate 222, including a range of cutlery, nutcrackers, cheese scoops, sandwich tongs and grape scissors. Date: circa 1880s

Our Lady and St. Bernard, 1709. Copy. Prague. Czech Republic
Our Lady and St. Bernard. By Matej Vaclav Jackel (1709). 18th century. Baroque sculpture decorating the Charles Bridge. Copy of the original. Prague. Czech Republic

Seletion of sterling silver, electro-plate cutlery 1929
A selection of sterling silver, electro-plate and stainless steel butter, bread, cake knives, cheese scoop, sugar sifter, tea infuser, asparagus tongs, wine cork, crumb scoop, pickle, butter

Advert for Mappin & Webbs Christmas presents 1888
Selection of artistic and useful Christmas presents. 1888

Card; Tongs and so On
The poker, the shovel. the broom and tongs, made Christmas merry with dance and songs Date: circa 1905

Anglo Saxon banquet and tools.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

The Sphere Christmas 1917 cover
It was like this, Mother The cover of The Spheres Christmas 1917 issue. An illustration by Edmund Blampied showing a young British officer, home on leave for the holiday period

Nursery Rhymes -- Jack and Jill, Polly Flinders
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- Jack and Jill falling down the hill. Below -- Little Polly Flinders sitting among the cinders. Date: early 20th century

A Street Hardware Stall, Japan - selling a wide array of goods including scissors, tongs, trowels, pans, hinges and metal rods. Date: circa 1910s

Bronze cooking utensils recovered from Pompeii, Italy
Bronze cooking utensils recovered from excavations at Pompeii, Italy. Date: 1906

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