I did a quick look for you as I sell some silver and some silverplate items and 700 was one I had not come across before. From what I could tell, it is 70% silver, the 30 could be anything. Your picture is very small but they look interesting! What do they measure?

EDIT: I once came across a pair of cufflinks marked 9kt, that was a strange one. Come to find out it is very common in the UK. Now I forget what the gold rating meant, LOL. I have a silver bracelet that looks like it came from India, was hubby’s mom’s, and it’s marked 800 which is a common mark for India. Try this web site for silver stuff, they have a lot of information about a lot of items. www.925-1000.com

Hi friend, I sold quite a few tongs (for ice) and every now and then would come across the sugar cube tongs too which many that I’ve seen were unbranded but did have numbers on them. This is the imperial-link to the site I’ve been using for a few years and it will show many similar to yours along with period (years) and the pattern names.

Check this out and hopefully you’ll see a match

@> http://www.imperialhalfbushel.com/CoinSilverSugarTongs.htm

I, too, use the site, johngermaine references. The only mentions of 700 silver are items from Mexico or Egypt. Have fun researching this.

I did see a couple of other sugar tongs with that same 700 mark. The thing is with no other markings it will be hard to identify the maker. You can try the Silver Patterns site and see if you can identify the pattern that would tell you the maker. Yetta

A little over 4 1/4 inchs
Thanks for taking a look never heard of 700 before.
No other marks which I thought odd.

According to this site… .700 is the standard for Lebanon

http://www.925-1000.com/a_Standards.html

That might give you a lead.