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the tongs by Thomas Northcote & George Bourne, London 1795, with fixed retainer and narrow corrugated blades, engraved with the crest of 'Hacket' of Warwickshire and Scotland, and monogrammed 'DFH', 4ozt; the ladle by Thomas Morley, London 1793, the oval bowl with flared rim 8cm wide, the flat strip mount flared to a short tubular socket holding the twisted baleen handle topped with a simple silver terminal, overall length 37cm (2)

Footnote: Provenance: From the collection of a fine country house, Oxfordshire

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