Cleaning the silver

I thought I had best get my silverware out and get to cleaning it. I love to use my vintage silverware.Here is some of it . I open my chest in the kitchen and just pulled out a few pieces for show and tell today.
Also here is a bowl my sister wanted to put in one of my yard sales and of course it's in my kitchen for now.

           These are my ladles for my punch bowl and just a large serving ladle

                                                                               
     Also a    few serving spoons I just can't resist them at estate sales and a once in a while at a flea market I find a beautiful one I always look for my mother's pattern Coronations. It's the second from the left of the above picture.

These serving forks i was told the one on the far right is a lettuce fork. The one on the left i don't know for sure would guess pickle fork?

                                                                                    
                                                                       

                    I just love coin silver spoons and only have 3 , my sister at one time told me she took a shoe box full to the salvation army store because she didn't know what they was. I about died. She knows now to give them to sister. She use to work someplace where people donated items for her to sell for charity and she didn't know these were coin silver spoons. We all have to learn hard lessons in life. I know I have learned things the hard way.

                                                                              

                  

This is a few pieces I have of red Bakelite

         
I really like this butter dish and plan on using it my next dinner party it has a glass liner and I think it is very elegant   on its dainty legs                                                     
                                                                 

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Here is a close up of my silverware pattern Coronation
                                                                                                               

                                                                                                     
        Also I hate to toot my own horn, but there's no one else to do it. Sissy hasn't caught onto the computer thing yet. Today is my Birthday .   My good friend Jo came into town yesterday and took me out to lunch at Red Lobster  neither one of us had been there for some time and it was nice. Tonight I have been invited to someone's house for dinner and was told she had a special cake made for me I love cake and what better cake than a beautiful Birthday cake. I also recieved some nice cards in the mail yesterday , one from one my sister Liz.