"Sugar Cracker Tongs - France - 19th Century "
Sugar Cracker TongsFrance, 19th century
Steel
Length: 20.7 cm
Steel sugar-breaking tongs with short, opposing aspik blades and large oval rings.
These scissor-like pliers were used to break sugar or to cut sugar loaves, which consisted of a conical block of white sugar sold until the end of the 19th century.
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