London, open salt with blue glass liner, engraved decoration, 1788, monogram; sugar tongs, engraved bellflowers decoration, lacking date mark; fork with upturned handle, 1784, monogram on back; master salt, downturned handle, 1781, heraldic device, 5.34 oz. T. weighable silver, 4-1/8 in. to 7-1/4 in.; Provenance: Sugar tong and salt spoon, Craword's Antiques, Waynesville, North Carolina, 1974 (with original receipt); open salt Eric Shrubsole, Ltd., New York, 1974 (with original receipt); Coleman Collection, Matthews, North Carolina
Condition
salt with chips to glass; sugar tongs with monogram removed; fork with loss to tines, all with some wear