PROBABLE WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR A SINGLE PAIR OF TEA TONGS!

At an auction in the USA this month, a pair of Tea Tongs realised a price of the US Dollar equivalent of over £2000!

The pair, illustrated above, were listed as "Silver Sugar Scissors, Jacob Hurd (1702/03-58) Boston".

This information is placed here, in the public domain, purely for the information of collectors; the images used are from the eBay listing of the item.

I would welcome any thoughts on this item and the attribution.

A recent sighting of a mark that had previously been unrecorded is illustrated here.

The likely attribution is to Paul Seguier - a Huguenot goldsmith.