A matched set of twelve William and Mary and George IV silver Dog-nose spoons,

A matched set of twelve William and Mary and George IV silver Dog-nose spoons,
eleven by Thomas Allen, London 1697, one by William Chawner, London 1829,
the reverse of the oval bowls with a raised rat-tail, the reverse of the terminals scratch initialled 'S*C', for Sion College, length 20.1cm, approx. weight 22.6oz. (12)

Sion College, is a London institution founded by the Royal Charter in 1630 as a college, guild of parochial clergy and almshouse, under the 1623 will of Thomas White, Vicar of St. Dunstan's in the West. Its original building was in London Wall.