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Item [19] promotes silverware from Reed & Barton. Includes advice on choosing a pattern and images and prices for place settings, sets, and serving pieces in Autumn Leaves, Burgundy, Classic Rose, Dancing Flowers, Florentine Lace, Francis First, French Renaissance, Georgian Rose, Marlborough, Pointed Antique, Rose Cascade, Silver Scuplture, Silver Wheat, and Tara patterns. No recipes.

Item [20] promotes Tuttle sterling silver flatware and serving pieces. Includes images and descriptions of Windsor Castle, Crest of Arden, Classic Antique, Feather Edge, Onslow, and Hannah Hull flatware; images and descriptions of date and trade marks; suggestions for marking silver; image of Hannah Hull recieving her dowry; images of William Abdy pipkin, Widsor Castle kettle, Hannah Hull tea service, Paul Revere teapot, and Paul Revere pitcher; image of Onslow pattern five piece tea service; and price list for place settings and serving pieces. No recipies.

Item [21] promotes Westmorland sterling silver and Nancy Prentiss fine china, crystal, and stainless. Includes image of company logo; images of cooks in period dress; image of perfect hostess; images of good and bad centerpieces; images of tables dressed for various occasions including formal dinner, lunch, tea, and buffets; rules for selecting tableware and linens; differences between sterling silver, silver plated, and stainless steel flatware; differences between earthenware, pottery, fine china, porcelain, and bone china; differences in taste between china for private and commerical use; image of glassblower and spinning wheel; definitions of decoration, glaze, and glassware; differences in type and quality of linens; instructions on silver, china, glassware, and linen care; advice on being a good hostess, table etiquette, setting up buffet, creating centerpieces, and planning a dinner party, luncheon, brunch, or special event; instructions for planning a party; rules and diagrams for seating arrangements and setting the table; difference between American and Westmorland service; advice on what to serve with lists of items and menus; images, definitions, and uses of items of flatware, crystal, and china; and an offer for the Nancy Prentiss society. No recipes. Marked: Form WA 760.

Item [22] promotes Lowestoft fine dinnerware. Includes company history; image of coffee service in Trade Winds pattern; image of informal place setting in Queen's Bird pattern; image of Blue Gloucester serving pieces; images of plates in Graystone, Fitzhugh, Gloucester, Heritage, Queen's Bird, Trade Winds, Newburyport, and Henry IV patterns; and images of Lowestoft pieces availible. No recipes. Damaged: back cover has a price list in blue ink.

Item [23] promotes silverware and hollow ware by Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen. Includes images of English, New England, Spanish, and Georgian homes and dining rooms, some by famous decorators; map of early colonial buildings and their styles; company history; images of Adam, William and Mary, Mary II, Early American, Granado, Charles II, Regency, American Directoire, and Coronet patterns; 1937 price lists for silverware and hollow ware in William and Mary, Charles II, American Directoire, and Coronet patterns; images of furniture and tableware from William and Mary and early American periods; and images of furniture and tableware in Directoire and spanish styles. No recipes. Marked: Form 632 6-35, Form 491 2-37, Form 672-3-37, Form 680 5-35, Form 702-5-36, Form 647-3-37, Form 539 3-37, Form 617 3-37, and Form 656 2-37.

Item [24] promotes Reed and Barton silverware. Includes eight drink recipes; advice on setting the table and menus for formal and informal dinner parties, luncheons, afternoon teas, and cocktail parties; list of complete flatware service for twelve, eight, or four; advice on stretching limited amount of silver for large party; images of spoons in Francis First, Heppelwhite, Hawthorn, Marie Antoinette, Pointed Antique, Colonial Classic, Jubilee, Trianon Pierced, Sonata, Mayflower, King, Old English Antique, Queen Anne, Labors of Cupid, Seventeenth Century, LaSalle, Yorktown, and Romaine patterns; diagrams on dinner and luncheon services per course; advice for using silver in unique ways; list of do's and don'ts; images of initials, monograms, and crests on various patterns; advice on selecting a monogram; images and definitions of each piece of flatware; advice on silver care; image of factory and trademark; and offer to complete form for Gift Control Plan. Sample recipe: Alexander. Damaged: cover detached.

Item [25] promotes silverware from Reed & Barton and Dominick & Haff. Includes general history of tableware; partial bibliography; history of the spoon, knife, and fork; image of ancient Egypt; several images of early spoons, knives, and forks; images of Medieval banquets; descriptions and images of making of spoons, knives, and forks; advice and images of correctly laid breakfast, luncheon, and formal dinner tables by Louis Sherry; and advice on silver care. No recipes.

Item [26] promotes Libbey Glass stemware. Includes advice on wine appreciation; image of American embassy in London; image of official United States Government stemware; instructions on classifing wine, wine care, serving wine, selecting proper glasses, ordering of wines, and pairing wine with food; images of wine glasses in Royal Fern, Cornucopia, Symphony, Allegro, Caprice, Lotus, Waterwitch, and Malmaison; definitions of well known wine types like Madeira; images of wine do's and don'ts; images of various types of wine glasses; image of dining salon on Ile de France; chart of glasses by M. Maurice Mahieu for different wine menus; image of table in Jansen suite of Waldorf-Astoria; image of menu from annual banquet of New York Hotel Association in 1906 prepared by Oscar; quick reference table of wine and food pairings; advice on when to drink various type of wines; list of important vintage years for Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne; advice on serving cocktails as aperitif or evening drink; advice on serving punches; and images of various cocktail glasses, punchbowl, and decanter. No recipes.

Item [27] promotes cypress with Sugi finish for decorative use. Includes definition of Sugi finish; reason why cypress is best wood for Sugi; description of traditional Japanese process; advice on selecting best cypress and tools; advice on preventing warping; detailed instructions for customers; image of typical piece of flat grain cypress with Sugi; image of serving tray of curly cypress with Sugi; images of craftsman burning and rubbing cypress sheet; list of places Sugi can be used as interior trim, special furniture, or small items; offer for Aquaplane, Hawaiian surf riding equipment from cypress; foldout with images of large example of Sugi, Sugi on straight grain cypress, Sugi on curly cypress, and reception room of Association of Commerce in New Orleans; and foldout with images of paneling in Association of Commerce, doorway in Association of Commerce, corner of reading room in Association of Commerce, rare example of carved cypress with Sugi, and humidor and sheet of curly cypress with Sugi finish. No recipes.

Item [28] promotes salt and pepper shakers manufactured by A. H. Heisey & Company. Includes image of trademark; description of sanitary and metal tops featured; full size sectional view of salt shaker no. 300 with sanitary top no. 3; price list of salt and pepper shakers of various model nos. with various model nos. of tops; images in half size of shaker model nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 150, 300, 300-2, 300-4, 313, 325, 325-2, 331, 331-2, 333, 335, 337, 339-2, 341, 341-2, 343, 351, 365, 379, 400, 1220, 1225, 1225-4, and 1250; and two images of sugar sifter no. 352 one with sanitary top no. 1 and the other with silver plated top. No recipes. Marked: #439. Damaged: frontis has signed and dated bookplate by previous owner.