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opacity: .95 !important; } .prod-hero-icon { animation: none !important; transform: none !important; text-shadow: 0 0 24px rgba(255,236,186,0.68), 0 0 60px rgba(214,170,80,0.36) !important; } }\n\/* ===== END GLOW LAYER ===== *\/\n\n@media (max-width: 600px) {\n  .prod-includes { grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr !important; }\n  .prod-features { grid-template-columns: 1fr !important; }\n  .prod-hero h2 { font-size: 22px !important; }\n  .prod-hero { padding: 30px 20px !important; }\n}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-hero\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"prod-hero-icon\"\u003e🥄\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"color: #ffffff !important;\"\u003ePolished, Painted And Packed By Hand In A Connecticut Finishing Shop\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: #e2cfa5 !important;\"\u003eEileen Prentice, 68, has run Prentice Plate \u0026amp; Polish in Meriden for thirty-one years — the town they used to call America's Silver City. She sold the building in September. These are the last 800 sets she will ever ship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-story\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Cookies, a candle, a gift card in a little envelope. I've given all three. I've gotten all three. If it's eaten, burned or spent by the second week of January, it wasn't really a gift — it was a receipt with a ribbon on it. So I made something that goes on the table while the coffee is still hot, and then goes back in the drawer until next December.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003e— Eileen Prentice, Meriden, Connecticut\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eWhat Arrives\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-includes\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🍴\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eSix Pieces\u003c\/b\u003e \u003csmall\u003eThree coffee spoons and three cake forks, 6.5 in each\u003c\/small\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🎨\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eSix Figures\u003c\/b\u003e \u003csmall\u003eSanta, tree, reindeer, red hat, snowman, stocking — each painted by hand\u003c\/small\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🎁\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eGift Box Included\u003c\/b\u003e \u003csmall\u003eGreen box with a window lid — wrapped before you touch it\u003c\/small\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e💧\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eDishwasher-Safe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003csmall\u003eGold-tone finish that never needs polishing\u003c\/small\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eWhy It Doesn't End Up In A Cabinet\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-features\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e👨‍👩‍👧\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eSix Figures, Six People At The Table\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePut the set out and within about ninety seconds everyone has claimed one. The reindeer belongs to the grandson by the window. The snowman belongs to whoever got there first and is not giving it up. Next year, the same people reach for the same ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e✨\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eGold, Not Silver — On Purpose\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilver plate tarnishes. That means a cloth, a cabinet, and a person who decides it's too nice to put on the table. Eileen spent fifty years watching beautiful flatware sit in drawer liners. This finish doesn't tarnish, doesn't need polishing, and goes in the dishwasher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e⚖️\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eWeight In The Hand\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach piece runs 6.5 inches long and a hair over half an inch wide — a proper coffee spoon and a proper cake fork, not a novelty too small to eat with. Weight is the first thing a flatware polisher notices, every time. That part is not an accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🔨\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinished Where It's Always Been Finished\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stainless blanks come from a mill in upstate New York. Everything after that happens on Eileen's benches: the mirror polish, the hand-painting of every figure, setting each figure on its stem, final inspection and packing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🗓️\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eIt Comes Back Out Every December\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleven months in a drawer, then a week of working every afternoon. Nobody brings a Christmas present in to be restored, because Christmas presents don't get used. This one does — which is the entire reason it exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🖌️\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eNo Two Faces Quite Alike\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery figure is finished by hand — the face, the trim, the small details a machine pass leaves flat. Two women come back every summer to work the season with Eileen. They've been at it long enough that she can tell whose brush did which reindeer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-expert\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: #f2ece2 !important;\"\u003e“Let me be straight about what this is, because I've spent thirty years around people who exaggerate it. I don't pour steel. Nobody in Connecticut pours steel for teaspoons anymore — the houses we finished for closed or moved overseas by the end of the eighties, and most of the shops on our street went with them. What I could keep here was the finishing: the polish, the paint, the inspection, the packing. I couldn't keep all of it here. So I kept what I could, for thirty-one years. That's the honest version, and it's the one I'd rather sell.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite style=\"color: #e2cfa5 !important;\"\u003e \u003cb style=\"color: #ffffff !important;\"\u003eEileen Prentice\u003c\/b\u003e · flatware plating and polishing, 31 years, Meriden, Connecticut \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eWho People Give It To\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-perfect-for\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🎁 A daughter-in-law\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e☕ The host\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🏡 A neighbor\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🍰 Coffee-and-cake afternoons\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e👵 Grandparents' table\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🍎 A teacher\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🎄 The person who owns everything\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🥄 Your own drawer\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eWhat You Are Actually Getting\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"prod-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOne of the final 800.\u003c\/b\u003e Fourteen hundred sets were prepared across the summer — polish through June and July, paint and set through August, packed in September. When they're gone there is no reorder, because the building is sold and there's no bench left to make more on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePainted by hand, one figure at a time.\u003c\/b\u003e Not printed, not stickered, not sprayed. The face, the trim and the detail laid on with a brush.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEighty years of one trade behind it.\u003c\/b\u003e Eileen's grandfather opened the shop in 1946, her father ran it after him, and she took it over in 1995. Meriden was the Silver City, and this is one of the last shops in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNothing to maintain.\u003c\/b\u003e Gold-tone finish on stainless steel. No tarnish, no polishing cloth, no cabinet. It goes in the dishwasher with everything else.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eReady to give as it arrives.\u003c\/b\u003e The green gift box with the window lid is the packaging, not an extra — it ships inside a plain shipper, so the box underneath stays clean.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-guarantee\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e30 Days To Change Your Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse them for one December afternoon — coffee, cake, everyone arguing over who gets the Santa. If it isn't what you pictured, send it back within 30 days for a full refund. One email, no questions. Every set is inspected by hand before it's boxed; that's been the rule in this shop since 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"prod-specs\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSet contents\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSix pieces — three coffee spoons and three cake forks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFigures\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSanta, Christmas tree, reindeer, red hat, snowman and stocking — one per piece, each hand-painted\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLength\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6.5 in \/ 16.5 cm per piece\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e0.63 in \/ 1.6 cm at the handle\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eStainless steel with a gold-tone finish; hand-painted figure toppers set on the handle ends\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFinish\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMirror-polished in the Meriden shop — does not tarnish, never needs polishing\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCare\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDishwasher-safe, top or cutlery basket; no polish, no special cloth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePackaging\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDark green gift box with a red and green patterned window lid — ready to give as it arrives\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMade by\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEileen Prentice, Prentice Plate \u0026amp; Polish, Meriden, Connecticut — founded 1946, finishing flatware for eighty years\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eShipping\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eShips from the United States, 3–7 business days — order by December 15 for Christmas\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRemaining stock\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e800 sets — the final run, with no reorder\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Prentice Plate \u0026 Polish","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50828741869754,"sku":"PPP-XMAS-6PC","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/3250\/1946\/files\/hf_20261029_202422_b61df4ba-5778-49dd-b904-525022622507.png?v=1793307202","url":"https:\/\/backroad-goods.com\/products\/eileens-christmas-flatware-set-6-pieces","provider":"BACKR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}