拍品的状况可能存在极大差异，而由于其性质使然，拍品难以处于完美无瑕的状态。拍品均以拍卖时的状况出售。

Overall with some minor wear, scratches, and tarnish consistent with age, use, and storage, some wear to the gilding throughout, the spoons with some very minor wear to the edges of the bowls, the forks with some minor wear to end tines and tips, the oyster forks with some minor bends to tines, one with tines more bent and hooked than the others, the dinner knives, butter spreaders, carving forks and knife, pastry servers, pie servers, fish server, and master butter spreader all with hollow handles and stainless steel blades/tines marked REED & BARTON / MIRRORSTELE / STERLING HANDLE, one butter spreader with replaced unmarked blade that is slightly longer than the rest, generally good condition.

The associated case in brown leather with zipper and double snap covers and brown felt-lined interiors, the exteriors with wear, fading, and tears, one with the bottom slightly separating from the case, the interiors with some wear, fading, and staining, fitted but without obvious spaces for each piece type, with some dividers broken off, seemingly all retained though.