flatware

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Certain coins, pieces of jewelry or select flatware or serving pieces — even grandma’s cutlery — can have added value.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

So many sellers have swarmed Manhattan’s Diamond District with bracelets and flatware that buyers have had trouble keeping enough cash on hand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

The Arne Jacobsen set, he explains over Zoom, is an important piece of design history, but not a great piece of flatware.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

She sold flatware, stemware and linens, setting the pieces out on antique furniture — marble topped butcher tables, rattan settees, Art Deco bars — which, because customers asked, she began to sell too.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024

But the biscuits were light, and the plates, the flatware, sparkling and arranged just so.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison