18TH C. IRON PIPE TONGS AND BIRD HEAD TRAMMEL.

Two 18th C. hearth tools, including:a pair of iron pipe tongs, the long slender jaws closing on a scrolled spring, one arm ending in a scrolled finger grip and the other in a ringed tamper terminal;an early 18th C. brass sawtooth trammel, the hanging loop topped with a cast bird head, the notched ratchet bar adjusting through a sliding keeper to a lower hook.Tongs 14.75”L, trammel 16.5”L closed.

Estimate:£447.84

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