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What great images - I love this old Tiffany silver...
...also in love with Georg Jensen silver.

For some reasonably priced and readily available sets reminiscent of this, I'd look to Horchow.

While Tiffany is always quite expensive, most used silver is surprisingly cheap. Fish around on eBay or at flea markets. There are wonderful patterns, for not much more than good stainless costs. (And if you use it every day, you don't have to polish it.)

I totally agree with Lisa. I got all my sterling flatware (in Gorham's Etruscan pattern, with a modern-looking Greek key design) on eBay, and it didn't cost a whole lot more than a heavy set of stainless flatware. Even though the pattern has been discontinued, there were tons of pieces available. And in New York City apartments with no dishwasher, you have to wash flatware by hand anyway -- so it's no extra work (other than a twice a year polishing).

I could happily spend all my money on old silver. I'd rather have it than new. And nothing tastes better than ice cream eaten with a silver spoon, served in your Grandmother's china.

Here's something similar and more affordable: http://www.fitzsu.com/baroque-flatware-faces-ferran-adria-p-6017.html?osCsid=sm1lugsjmdk5rku111sddn1l24.