Never used Silverplate flatware set service for 8 6 place settings plus 8 additional spoons and serving pieces. Knife, dinner fork, desert salad fork, teaspoon, ice tea spoon, soup gumbo spoon. Serving pieces 3 serving spoons stuffing spoon meat fork master butter knife and sugar spoon. Stored in cardboard box for decades. No scratches no rubbing no loss of silver never polished. Needs a polish.