Hanoverian rat-tail pattern, all engraved with a crest, comprising:
Twenty-four dessert spoons, twelve with mark David Willaume, 1710 and twelve with mark of Thomas Chawner, 1776,
Twenty-four dessert forks, twelve with mark David Willaume, 1710 and twelve with mark of Thomas Chawner, 1776,
Twenty-four dessert octagonal section baluster handled knives, marked on stems and handles, twelve knives with lion passant and trace of maker's mark, possibly for William Abdy, circa 1776, twelve knives apparently unmarked;
Twelve similar serving spoons, two ice-cream serving spoons, two sugar sifters and two cream ladles, all engraved with crest beneath baron's coronet, with mark of William Eley and William Fearn, 1824
weighable silver 123 oz. 8 dwt. (3,839 gr.)
The crest is that of Dutton, presumably on the earlier pieces for Sir Ralph Dutton 1st Bt. (c.1645-1721) of Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire, and on the later pieces for James Dutton, later 1st Baron Sherborne (1744-1820) of Sherborne Park, .

Sir Ralph Dutton 1st Bt. (c.1645-1721) of Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire, the earlier pieces, then by descent to his son,
Sir John Dutton, 2nd Bt. (d.1743) of Sherborne Park, then to his nephew,
James Lenox Naper, later Dutton (c.1713-1776) of Sherborne Park, by descent to his son,
James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne (1744-1820) of Sherborne Park, who added the later spoons and forks in 1776, by descent to his son,
John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne (1779-1862) of Sherborne Park, who added the serving pieces in 1824, by descent to,
Ralph Stawell Dutton, 8th Baron Sherborne (1898-1985), of Hinton Ampner House, Hampshire, then under the terms of the will of Edward Dutton, 4th Baron Sherborne (1813-1919) to his kinsman,
Michael John James George Robert Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk and 14th Earl of Berkshire (1935-2022), then by descent.

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SIR RALPH DUTTON 1ST BT.
Sir Ralph Dutton Bt. was the son of Sir Ralph Dutton Kt. (1601-1646), of Standish, and his wife Mary, the daughter of Sir William Duncombe. Ralph inherited the Sherborne estate on the death of his childless elder brother William in 1674/5, who had in turn inherited it from their uncle John ‘Crump’ Dutton (d.1656/7), so called on account of his suffering from a hunchback. It was Crump Dutton who had commission the striking Lodge Park at Sherborne, a sophisticated deer coursing grandstand and banqueting house, once thought to have been the work of Inigo Jones, but now believed to be by his sometime collaborator John Webb (1611-1672).

Ralph married twice; firstly Grizel, daughter of Sir Edward Poole of Kemble, Wiltshire, circa 1674, however she died in 1678, the year he was made a baronet, for the fee of £1100. In 1679 he married Mary, the heiress of Peter Barwick, physician to King Charles II. Sir Ralph was M.P. for Gloucestershire from 1679 until 1681 and again from in 1689 to 1698. Tragically Sir Ralph had inherited Crump Dutton’s love for gambling. His estate, presumably including his plate, was made over to his son in 1710 and he left Gloucestershire to live in Ireland where he died in 1721, succeeded in the baronetcy by his son John 2^ndBt., uncle of James Lenox Naper/Dutton.