New York Central Lines Silver Sugar Tongs 1920's Shell Pattern Railroad NYC

  
New York Central Lines Silver Sugar Tongs 1920's Shell Pattern Railroad NYC. For your consideration is a rare 1915 era - inside marked three and 7/8's inches long silver plate sugar tongs with beautiful shell - scallop feet made for dining car and parlor service of the New York Central Lines railroad. The pattern of these tongs is referred to as Commonwealth and were made by the Reed & Barton Silver Co. They are clearly marked N. The tongs are in excellent condition with the usual light usage scratches, some wear, but look amazing. These would have seen service aboard the dining cars, parlor cars, and other cars where beverages would've been provided of the New York Central Railroad operations and used in connection with the NYC Railroad china and glassware for table service. They are a souvenir; rather, it is the heavyweight type steamship, restaurant, and hotel silverplate. The set would've been used to hold cubes of sugar for adding to sweeten hot coffee, hot tea, iced tea, or other beverages or entrees that could have used sugar. They are very ornate with the ornamental shell design on feet and function very well; suitable for actual usage too. Historically, the New York Central was the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. Later, the railroad became just the New York Central Lines. On July 1st, 1935, the New York Central Lines became the New York Central System. Some of the locations along the New York Central route where this earlier set may have later been used and saw service included the towns and cities of the Chicago, Illinois, to New York primary route.

In New York these included Peekskill, Beacon, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Weedsport, Lyons, Rochester, Batavia, Buffalo, and Dunkirk New York. In Ohio, these included Ashtabula, Painesville, Collinwood, Cleveland, Elyria, Sandusky, Port Clinton, Millbury, Toledo, Morenci, Bryan, Ansonia, Sidney, Bellefontaine, Ridgeway, Marion, Martel and Galion. In Indiana, these included Waterloo, Ligonier, Goshen, Elkhart, South Bend, LaPorte, Porter, Gary, Terre Haute, St.

Mary of the Woods, Greencastle, Indianapolis, Noblesville, Anderson, Muncie, New Castle, and Union City. In Illinois, some of the locations included Chicago, East St. Louis, Granite City, Hillsboro, Paris, Mattoon, Paris, and Shelbyville. An amazing addition to your coffee pot, teapot, creamer, pitcher, or historic railroad silver collection.