A sophisticated website maintained by specialists in rare and unique fine antique sterling silver flatware and hollowware, coin silver, antique sterling silver novelties and sterling tea items. Makers include Tiffany, Gorham, Shiebler, Durgin, Kirk, Whiting, Wendt, Dominick & Haff, Wood & Hughes, etc.

January is traditionally the time for getting the house in order and replenishing household goods for the coming year. I am happy to embrace the tradition! After a prolonged period of house guests and entertaining, I'm busy counting spoons and assessing the damages anyway. And there were a few casualties along the way. We had broken glass, candle wax and red sauce on the linen, and a shortage of bowls. (Believe it or not!) But mishaps are a natural household process, and shouldn't keep you…

Forks, knives, spoons. Flatware. Sterling silver flatware. Pretty straight forward right? Well, hold on there Sunshine! Don’t forget about the serving pieces. Yes, that’s right, the ant…

Antique silver tea services are not only beautiful to look at but still can be used and enjoyed, if not everyday, at least for special occasions and holidays. Plus with the slow and steady return to elegance in decor and entertaining, people (yes even the millennial's) are leaning more to sophisticated yet comfortable traditional spaces. Once a status symbol of the dining room, silver tea services have been resigned to the scorned and rejected attics, garages, and other storage areas or…

A gleaming collection of early-20th-century English ring boxes illustrates the various motifs, hand-engravings, and shapes produced for the market.

Lucullus I don't always use napkin rings with my tablescapes, but when I do, I like to make a statement. The napkin rings above are f...