MCM Italian Brass Ice Tongs, Original Box, Unused

This is 8" long, ~2 1/4" wide, of ~7/16" half-round brass stock; weight is ~6.2 oz. About 5" of radius at the top have been machined away to create appropriate springiness. The mark is dead center inside, at the spring. It is very comfortable in hand, an' apparently made for use on molded or formed cubed or other regularly shaped ice.
Beautifully elegant in its simplicity, it really embodies MCM design, imo. Mostly just a show n tell...Thanks for lookin'!