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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mansons2005, post: 12055, member: 121&quot;]Small point - but napkin rings were (and should not be) not part of a formal setting - they were intended to preserve a napkin for each user (thus the simple monogram) for the duration of the period between weekly wash days, thus implying that (upper) middle class households could not afford to have that stack of single use serviettes on laundry day. They only became acceptable to true upper classes during WWI when even the Palace agreed to cut the laundry load by issuing each royal a single napkin for each day. But you would NEVER put a used napkin on a formal table........and there is no reason to preserve that napkin for a second use as most people at a formal dinner are guests - single users only as it were...............[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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