- Title:
- Thermo-Plastics serving tongs
- Object name(s):
- tableware; serving utensil
- Brief description:
- A pair of serving tongs made from colourless thermoformed acrylic by Thermo-Plastics Ltd, circa 1960s. These tongs have an asymmetrical design in that one end is cut off and flattened for scooping up an item of food and the other end terminates in a point.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- house and garden
- Colour:
- colourless
- Dimension:
- width 85 mm
- Dimension:
- length 260 mm
- Dimension:
- depth 48 mm
- Material:
- plastic
- Material:
- PMMA
- Material:
- polymethyl methacrylate
- Material:
- acrylic
- Object name:
- tableware; serving utensil
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 009505
- Object production organisation:
- Thermo-Plastics
- Organisation's association:
- Manufacturer
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Person's association:
- Designer
- Object production place:
- UK
- Technique:
- thermoformed
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/802328c1-36a4-3d2c-907a-f1521afbcebd
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/802328c1-36a4-3d2c-907a-f1521afbcebd, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY
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