I love the old siver plated trays (showing a 13" wide one at the bottom). This setting has 5 plates. The bottom is the charger (silver plate tray) then a plate with silver stripes from Target, this year's Christmas plate collection. On top of that is a real bargain! At the dollar tree store they have (like a thick foil catering grade at 9 3/4") a smaller silver toned charger type tray for one dollar. I have that Dollar tree tray on top of the silver striped plate, then a white lacy plate, then my green leaf/flower plate. This is one way to add a metal layer when you want more bling to a setting.
Another setting using this 9 3/4" silver toned charger tray.
Picture shows them taken apart. You can see my silver plate tray is starting to tarnish here, IRL the two trays look more alike than in this picture.
Here is the luncheon size with 8" plate on top of that 9 3/4" charger tray, then picture below that takes the setting apart.
And here I used this small tray for a backdrop in my china cabinet, and the best part is no polishing! Helps to reflect light and balance where you might have silver displayed in another part of the cabinet and it is not a symmetrical display.
Thi next picture shows the same cone trees with a set of small LED lights that are made for small village and train set display. I found two sets at Lowe's! They come with one battery pack, about 16" of wire to two small (black box) spot lights. I think it makes the display more interesting with shadows and more texture. 
I had also tried an overhead small light (the type with a nightlight 4W bulb that fits into a night light. but it gave the 8" height-paper houses a flat washed out look.
This shows the cabinet with the houses and the cone trees lit with these tiny LED spot lights. The light bulb is supposed to have 700 hrs. And I have lit these spot lights every night for a few hours each for a week now. They are still going strong.
