A creative dealer at a recent flea market we visited was showcasing a clever new use for old silver-plated forks. He bent two tines of each fork backwards and the other two forward so the forks could stand up on a table. Then he used the forks to display old tintypes.

If you have some old mismatched silver-plated forks, you can try this yourself. You will need a tool to bend the tines. Then you can display not just photos, but greeting cards, invitations, place cards, postcards and other small paper items.