silver-plate

Evans specialised in sterling silver and silver-plate for the table; not cutlery, which was a Sheffield trade, but in ornamental objects that many of us would now struggle to identify.

Amid the jumble, the story of Britain's age of silver 2011

Most silver-plate flatware sets sell for $40 to $75; sterling flatware sets go for $500 to $1,200 or more.

Find Money Hidden in the Attic 2010

By that standard, Fanciulli was one of the greats, having been immortalized in a trading-card equivalent, the silver-plate souvenir spoon.

Making Bitter Fernet-Branca Much Easier to Swallow 2009

Here the old man was employed busily in the doubtful task of burnishing a pewter flagon until it should take the hue and semblance of silver-plate.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Again, Gobseck had refused free delivery of his silver-plate, and declined to guarantee the weights of his coffees.

Gobseck 2007

The room itself was crammed with furniture, and silver-plate, and lamps, and vases, and pictures; there were books, and curiosities, and fine engravings lying rolled up, unframed.

Gobseck 2007

Again, Gobseck had refused free delivery of his silver-plate, and declined to guarantee the weights of his coffees.

Gobseck 2007

The room itself was crammed with furniture, and silver-plate, and lamps, and vases, and pictures; there were books, and curiosities, and fine engravings lying rolled up, unframed.

Gobseck 2007

The three thousand francs were gone, with the silver-plate and the trinkets.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Whenever anyone from the mainland comes in with a group of her friends, all of them thin and tanned and sighing at the woodwork and white tableclothes, the crystal bud vases filled with roses and fern and the silver-plate antique everything, anytime someone says, “Well, you should serve tofu instead of veal!” take a drink.

Diary Palahniuk, Chuck 2003