She used her scales in the dining room, first to weigh the Russian silver tea and coffee service and almost a dozen accessory pieces.

Her Oscar stood next to a silver tea set that belonged to her mother, Sulamith, who died this year at 92.

The small lobby, more like a sitting room, has a fireplace and a silver tea set ready for pouring.

"It's also the silver tea set you may have inherited from your great-grandmother, the ancestral portrait that has more sentimental value than market value."

In front of the large bay windows stood a colonial side table that held a silver tea set my father had inherited from his mother.

Waseme glided into the room and placed a silver tea set on the coffee table.

He carried out his duties to such satisfaction that citizens presented him with a silver tea and coffee service afterwards.

The click of the lock was covered by the rattle of the silver tea pot on the tray.

She added, "Cora doesn't want anything, only those paintings of the ancestors in the hall and the silver tea and coffee sets."

Among collectors, a Spratling silver tea set now fetches more than $10,000.