How To Serve Thanksgiving in Vintage Style

With the right vintage holiday flair, no one will even notice the turkey. Well, almost no one.

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Why make the turkey the star of your Thanksgiving show when you can wow family and friends with just the right vintage flair? Ruby Lane, the world’s largest curated online marketplace for high-quality vintage collectibles and antiques, has just the right festive furnishings to create the perfect dazzling dinner at your home. You can find the following pieces and plenty more at RubyLane.com

Wild Turkeys Brown, Native American 17” platter is one of several highly collectible Johnson Bros turkey patterns produced between 1951 and 1974: $249. Courtesy Grandview Fine Tableware
Leave your guests breathless with this large Chinese scroll platter from Mason’s Patent Ironstone China, circa 1815: $2,000. Courtesy Antiques On Asco
A circa 1900 Art Nouveau Jugendstil glass punch set with an elegant lidded, pedestal-foot punch bowl and ten handled, pedestal foot cups. The lightly iridescent, frosted and colorless glass is decorated with textured polychrome flower swags, gold borders and gold four-leaf clovers with stylized stems with drops: $299. Courtesy Green Country Estates - Tulsa Antiques LLC
This 1940s Art Deco Saturn punch bowl set by Hazel Atlas, in chrome and cobalt glass, is begging to be filled with an out-of-this-world atomic punch. Display on the buffet in your dining room and watch your guests’ jaws drop: $550. Courtesy Lake Girl Vintage
Gravy never had it so good being served from a pair of early 19th century Mason’s Patent Ironstone China sauce tureens and matching underplates decorated with a pattern of fence gate and peonies: $1,950. Courtesy Classic Tradition
The rolls your favorite aunt brings each year will look great on a fancy bread platter like this antique Wedgwood Argenta Ware from 1882: $575.
Any color wine goes well with this T & V Limoges punch set, 1900, featuring hand-painted purple, red, and yellow grapes. With matching sherbets, the set was painted by artist Minnie Luken: $695.undefined Courtesy LA Bazaar: rubylane.com/shop/labazaar
Perfect for serving after-dinner coffee or tea: a Moser pink paneled and gilt-gold glass service for six: $8,900. Courtesy La Maison Supreme: rubylane.com/shop/la-maison-supreme-ltd
An antique Moser ruby red and gold crystal drinking set: $1,980. Courtesy Grand Tour Antiques
Who says water doesn’t deserve a fancy glass? This Venetian-enameled floral and gold iridescent green water goblet is a Salviati creation, late 19th century: $195 each. Courtesy Lady In Decadence
A retro rum punch would feel at home served in this amber glass punchbowl set, circa 1960; $120. Courtesy Solvang Antiques

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