Three silver table forks with upturned fiddle thread handles with short midribs on the front and the Livingston family crest engraved on the underside, a ship of three masts on fess below a banner with the engraved motto, "SPERO MELIORA" in roman letters; flared shoulders and four tines on each; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the stems.

silver dessert fork with an upturned fiddle thread handle with a short midrib and the engraved initials, "MGH" in script on the front; four curved tines; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the handles.

Six silver tableforks with upturned fiddle handles with short splayed midribs on the front; four curved tines on each; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the stems.

Eight silver table forks with upturned fiddle thread handles with short midribs on the front; Livingston family crest engraved on the underside of the handles, a demi-Hercules with a club in his left hand and a snake in the right on fess above the motto, "SI JE PUIS" in a banner; four curved tines on each; marks stamped on the undersides of the stems.

Twelve silver plated dessert knives with double-swell fiddle handles, cast in vertical halves, with all over foliate scroll decortation; oval egg and dart or foliate handle sockets fitted with flat, curved blades; maker's marks stamped on the blades.

Wrought and cast silver presentation teakettle with a bulbous, urn-shaped body with repoussé chased foliate and scroll cartouches around the Perry family crest, an anchor on fess below a hind's head, on one side of the body and the inscription, "Presented to Commodore/ Matthew Calbraith Perry/ by the Chamber of Commerce and/ Merchants of New York" in script on the other side; incurved neck with an egg and dart band applied around the rim; hinged, circuler, domed lid surmounted by a cast foliate finial; cast, three part, bail handle in the form of a grape vine with ivory insulators separating the sections; cast and applied handle sockets and joints in the form of grape vines and leaves wrap around the shoulder; cast, s-curve spout in the form of a grape vine with a notched lip; body seated on a stepped pedestal with an egg and dart band around the joint and the footring; cylindrical hinges applied to opposite sides of the foot (base missing); makers' marks stamped on the base.

One of a group of thirty-six silver tablespoons with upturned wavy-end handles with foliate decoration; pointed oval bowls with leaf decoration; undersides of the handles engraved with the Perry family crest, an anchor on fess below a hind's head; makers' marks stamped on the undersides of the stems.

Ovoid sauce tureen on an ovoid pedestal with applied cast scroll design and four scroll and trefoil feet; bowl incurved to an applied egg and dart rim and vertical bezel; two cast floral strap handles applied at the ends; ovoid lid raised to a low oval dome in the center surmounted by a cast laurel wreath ring handle; repoussé chased foliate decoration on both sides of the lid; repoussé chased foliate and scroll cartouches around the Perry family crest, an anchor on fess below a hind's head, on one side of the body and the inscription, "Presented to Commodore/ Matthew Calbraith Perry/ by the Chamber of Commerce and/ Merchants of New York" in script on the other side; makers' marks stamped on the base.

silver teaspoon with an upturned fiddle handle with a spayed midrib and the engraving, "E. Reichard" in script on the front; flared shoulders and a pointed oval bowl; makers' marks stamped on the underside of the handles.

One of thirty-five silver dessert forks with upturned wavy-end handles with foliate decoration; four curved tines on each with leaf decoration on the undersides; undersides of the handles engraved with the Perry family crest, an anchor on fess below a hind's head; makers' marks stamped on the undersides of the stems.