She can run her fingers over the bumps of bright enamel that form 421 grapes, oranges, pineapples and flower petals on every gold-rimmed dinner plate of a fine old Lenox china pattern called Autumn.

This set of vintage Lenox china in the Tartan Holiday pattern is available at Next To New consignment shop in Lancaster.

This floor vase, almost 26 inches high, was made around 1900 by Weller and Company. Signed by artist Frank Ferrell, it sold for $10,925 in a recent Treadway/Toomey Galleries sale.