Silver tarnishes on cardboard, rubber, and some woods, and a flatware case is exactly the drawer a burglary takes because it looks valuable. In the overview Security for collectors it sits with jewelry and coins, only bulkier.

What breaks without a thief

Sulfur, damp, a "silver dip" that takes engraving and gilding with it. You do not polish as a precaution when the patina or the gilding belongs to the piece. You store it dry, in material that does not let silver tarnish, not in the cardboard that already smells.

When someone comes

The case in the sideboard is known. The rare case and the few old spoons with a maker's mark go in the anchored cabinet once the sum requires it. The bulk of the everyday flatware can stay in the sideboard, clearly separated on the list, so a loss does not turn everything into a collector's piece.

The folder

Pieces and count, maker's mark as a photo, proof for the old sets. "Flatware for twelve" is one line only when it is a set and not twelve different spoons.