Silver spoons

For my everyday flatware I use a combination of my grandmother's old set of silverware and a big set of hotel silver that I bought on eBay years ago. They fill up my silverware drawer.

My silverware drawer

My grandmother's set has been in the family forever and my mother gave it to me when I bought the house back in '97. It has a lovely floral pattern on the handles.

My grandmother's silverware pattern

The hotel set says "Dreier Hotels". I did some research online and found out that it was a relatively small hotel company from the 1930s and 40s that had hotels located in the Times Square area of New York City. They owned the Beverly, Cadillac, Forrest, Piccadilly, Plymouth, President, and Riverside Plaza hotels under the Dreier umbrella name. Funny to think of how many people must've used these utensils before me!