The spoons are dessert spoons

The spoons are dessert spoons, not table spoons as previously catalogued.

A set of nine George I silver Hanoverian pattern dessert spoons,

by Joseph Barbut, London 1722 and 1723,

the reverse of the bowls with plain rat-tails, the reverse of the terminal with an armorial, approx. weight 12.2oz. (9)

The Shield is recorded in 1634 for Shepard/Sheppard of Great Rollright, Oxfordshire. Also used by Thomas Sheppard of Thornton Hall, Buckinghamshire, MP for Frome, created baronet in 1809.