Thank you Jan, I have never heard about that. Magnets in the sewing room would be very useful too. I Loose pins and needles all the time and then 'find them', ouch! susie

For tasting dragon's blood! Seriously....sort of. I think it's a "cordial set"...and looks to me like it's been sprayed silver....try a little nail polish remover and see if it removes the silver "paint"....and may be pewter....there are lots of sorts of pewter....some contain lots of lead, some none at all, some lots of tin, some antimony....so it could be something like that. It's...."interesting".... LOL!

We hung a large "bulletin board" in magnetic stainless steel for an angled wall next to our kitchen -- this holds greeting cards, photos, DS' report card, & other memorabilia. Using magnets instead of conventional thumbtacks keeps whatever we're posting from being damaged by pinholes. We put a smaller magnetic marker board in our drop zone for a message center. This holds reminders, coupons, date sensitive items, shopping lists, etc.

I kind of miss my white fridge with the magnets, but the kitchen does look much more elegant and calm with the stainless steel one. We put on one velcro spot to attach a clip holding our calendar. I mostly use my electronic calendar, but my husband likes having the written schedule. Fortunately, the sides are magnetic and stick out enough from the enclosure to hold the magnetic "keys" for the baby-proof latches we use. We have one on each side and a third one on the espresso machine so we never have to go far to open a latched cabinet. Whether steel is magnetic depends on the composition. When a steel is made of just iron and carbon, the iron atoms in it can act like little magnets that all align in a consistent direction in a magnetic field so that they are attracted to a magnet. Other elements such as chromium and nickle can be added to steel. They can improve properties such as corrosion resistance, but depending on the amount, they can inhibit the ability of the iron atoms moving to align. Then the fields of the iron atoms going every which way cancel each other out and the material isn't attracted to a magnet. That's why some steel cookware works on induction and some doesn't. I recall mention on the kitchen forum of one stainless steel refrigerator model where some instances had magnetic doors and were non-magnetic - perhaps it depended on which factory the fridge model was manufactured at. Some of the magnets found a home on the filing cabinets in my office which are in a closet with doors that can hide the clutter.