TWO QUEEN ANNE SILVER SPOONS
MARK OF JOHN AVERY OF EXETER, 1709, BRITTANIA STANDARD
Each with rat-tail bowl and trefid handle, prick engraved 'SP / IT / 1712' and 'ID / 1712' marked on handle, in a fitted green leather case with two engraved silver presentation inscriptions; together with a pair of silver spoons in the Elizabethan style, mark of Hicklenton & Phillips, London, 1937 engraved 'Mercer's Company George VI 1937' and 'TH'
7 oz. 4 dwt. (225 gr.)
The inscriptions to the fitted box of the Queen Anne spoons read 'The gift of the Women Students / to Her Royal Highness the / Duchess of Gloucester / at the laying of the / Foundation Stone of the Library of the / University College of the South West, / Exeter, October 20th 1937.' and 'A pair of Queen Anne flat stem / spoons with trifid handles made by / John Audry of Exeter in 1704 and / 1709. The backs of the Spoons are pricked/ with initials 1704/ S.P. / I.T / 1712 / P / I.D.'
TWO QUEEN ANNE SILVER SPOONS
MARK OF JOHN AVERY OF EXETER, 1709, BRITTANIA STANDARD
Each with rat-tail bowl and trefid handle, prick engraved 'SP / IT / 1712' and 'ID / 1712' marked on handle, in a fitted green leather case with two engraved silver presentation inscriptions; together with a pair of silver spoons in the Elizabethan style, mark of Hicklenton & Phillips, London, 1937 engraved 'Mercer's Company George VI 1937' and 'TH'
7 oz. 4 dwt. (225 gr.)
The inscriptions to the fitted box of the Queen Anne spoons read 'The gift of the Women Students / to Her Royal Highness the / Duchess of Gloucester / at the laying of the / Foundation Stone of the Library of the / University College of the South West, / Exeter, October 20th 1937.' and 'A pair of Queen Anne flat stem / spoons with trifid handles made by / John Audry of Exeter in 1704 and / 1709. The backs of the Spoons are pricked/ with initials 1704/ S.P. / I.T / 1712 / P / I.D.'
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