The Rheindahlen RAF Mess silverware [or some of it] was auctioned by the members before the pongoes were suffered to join and found Churchill Mess. The tone immediately dropped, and some of the behaviour was intolerable. One problem was unsupervised and drunken teenagers. On one occasion [Christmas Draw? New year Black Tie?] the Mess staff civilians refused to clean the bogs next morning.
Back to the silverware: I have some very nice souvenirs, honestly acquired, of six marvellous years.
None of which has anything to do with the thread.