Tongs
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel
Measurements
100 mm (Width); 720 mm (Length)
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533198.2
Summary
Pair of steel fire tongs, topped with a mushroom shaped handle ending in a circular brcket. It has oval pads and balls to the centre of the stem. Part of a set of steel fireirons including a steel poker, two pairs of steel tongs and a steel shovel (533198).
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.