拍品的狀況可能存在極大差異，而由於其性質使然，拍品難以處於完美無瑕的狀態。拍品均以拍賣時的狀況出售。

Overall with some minor wear consistent with age, use, and storage, some minor wear to the gilding on those pieces with gilding, the spoons with some minor wear to the edges of the bowls, the forks with some wear to end tines and tips, some tines not perfectly straight and even, the luncheon forks with some tines a bit more worn down, all knives with hollow handles, the fish knives, orange knife, and dessert knives with silver blades, the orange knife with a minor bend to the tip, the dinner and luncheon knives with steel blades marked TIFFANY & CO. NEW YORK, with some wear and rust/tarnish to the blades, some blades with some minor nicks and some minor losses to the tips, the piercing on the vegetable serving fork possibly later, the two two-piece carving sets and steel also with hollow handles and steel blades/tines, with some wear and rust/tarnish, the associated grape shears and cake server also with hollow handles.

The wood chest with hinged cover, with two brass handles to the sides, the cover with brass plaque engraved E.T. Lyman, plaque currently off but retained, lacking front panel, the interior lined in red velvet, with upper surface and three drawers with brass pulls, with a plaque reading TIFFANY & CO. SILVERSMITHS, some wear, tears, fading, and staining to interior, with fitted spaces, though not all servers fit well into places, and lack of space for associated pieces.

13³⁄₄ in. (35 cm.) high, 27¹⁄₂ in. (69.8 cm.) wide, 18³⁄₄ in. (47.6 cm.) deep, the chest