Of rectangular form with incurved corners, bright-cut engraved bands at rims, the flat hinged cover with ivory pineapple finial, interior divider, the cover engraved with two crests.

Provenance: The Lipton Tea Company, Hoboken, NJ
Christie's, London, 28 May 1951, lot 40, 165 GBP hammer to Shrubsole (Property of the late Major and Mrs. Frank Edwards removed from Wychbury, Winchester)

Exhibitions:
- The Lipton Collection, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1953, no. 38, p. 23 (illustrated)
- The Lipton Collection, The Portland Museum of Art, Feb-March, 1954, no. 67 (illustrated)
- The Lipton Collection, by Helen Comstock, undated catalog c1955, no. 38, p.23 (illustrated)
- An Exhibition of the Lipton Collection of Antique English Silver, Henry Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, Jan-Feb. 1956, no. 73, p. 37 (illustrated)
- The Lipton Collection: Antique English Silver Designed for the Serving of Tea, The Dayton Art Institute, Oct. 1958, no 74 (illustrated)

This set has been authorized for sale by the DEC (Identification number 29-14 issued 11-23-21) indicating that it and the the ivory incorporated in it has been accepted as an antique, and can be sold interstate and intrastate in New York.