A custom-made South American silver tea set, comprising one teapot, one coffee pot, one cream jug, one lidded sugar, and one waste bowl, together with a matching silver tea tray. Woodeninsulators to the tea and hot water pots. The pieces and tray with matching applied scrolling decoration. Marked "Sterling 915" with maker's mark "FPC" to the bottom of all but the lidded sugar bowl. Peru, 20th C. 5,039g weighable silver H. of coffee pot: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.) L. of tray: 70.1 cm (27 5/8 in.) Custom made in Peru in 1947 for owner while on posting with Department of External Relations. With documentation.