A 9-piece parcel-gilt sterling silver tea set, maker's mark of Samuel Smily, Goldsmiths Alliance Ltd, London 1873-74.

Service in original box consisting of a teapot, sugar bowl, creamer, and six teaspoons. Decorated with branches, flowers, birds, and people. Branch-shaped handles, teapot handle with insulation rings in ivory.
Teapot height 10.5 cm, length 19 cm, stamped on the bottom "Goldsmiths Alliance Limited Cornhill London". Sugar bowl width 14.5 cm, creamer height 8 cm. Spoons length 10.5 cm.
Total weight 840 g.
Fitted box, marked inside "By appointment to the King The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company LTD 112, Regent St. LondonW".
CITES-certficate valid in EU only, not for use outside the European Union.
Please, note that the item cannot be exported outside the European Union as long as the EU stricter domestic measures relating to ivory are in place.

A minor dent in the upper part of the cream jug.
A small spoon missing from the box.