Fine Silver - 27th April 2016
Lot 225
The spoons are dessert spoons
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £550
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Description
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.