OK – this is going to seem way too long, but I wanted clarification, and until I ought two brands, I would not have known these differences; I thought there might be other shoppers who care enough about these details, so I am writing this out, since the manufacturers did not give enough info in their descriptions. I ordered this item AND a nearly identical one from Reed and Barton, since I could not tell online whether they were the same or not. Here is the scoop: I thought these were just tarnish-free free-form bags into which I would place my flatware; I was wrong, but I still liked what the manufacturers made. These “drawer liners” are actually structured shapes which hold your silverware, and which have an outer shell (a zippered bag) to protect the whole assembly. There is a shaped, sturdy base, covered in tarnish-free felt, which is basically a flat rectangular base with two rows of “felted supports” attached to it. The rectangular base seemed to be stiff cardboard with a felt covering – I did not try to bend it, but could feel that it might bend with enough pressure; this is strong enough for its purpose, but you might want to know this is not solid wood or hard plastic or anything structural. It is strong enough to hold flatware, under normal use. One row of vertical felted supports is designed to hold your forks and spoons – there are 8 slots, spaced evenly apart; you’d have to divide up your flatware in stacks as you wish (the same way that a silver chest has slots for the vertical stacking of spoons). The other row of supports is designed to hold knives; there are individual 24 slots for knives. I put a few pieces in both types of slots to be sure they would not hit each other,: the flatware had enough room, and stayed separated. Once you have all your silver in the slots, you can then zipper the outer shell closed, and the entire “rectangular shape” is enclosed in the tarnish-free felt. Not airtight, but protected. Both brands are well made, and although the descriptions read that the dimensions varied, the base liner was only 1/4” longer on the Reed and Barton model. I put a few pieces of flatware in both brands, and both brands provided ample room. The ad and pictures are unclear, but BOTH brands provide built-in physical supports for the silverware. Felt-covered, fully shaped “holders” are there, to hold stacks of forks and spoons, and then the knives are each held independently in slots, to keep them separated. The knife slots on the Reed and Barton brand were extremely tight, if you have thick silverware, or if you have a style with wider (fat) handles. I think with time, the R&B slot might widen, but I felt more comfortable with the Hagerty brand – it still held my knife blades, but not so tightly. (And when zipped, the knives have nowhere else to “go”, so they are going to stay in place.) The amount of flatware you can stack vertically would be the same in both brands – the shaped “holders” were the same height. Major difference: R&B: The Reed and Barton brand has a soft fabric shell over its top (the zippered shell), but has a solid bottom, like a solid base with a textured surface (almost like a plastic base pad); it looks like they tried to make it a non-slide style surface on the bottom. It is still soft on the inside, which is what really matters, but the outside surface of the bottom of the R&B base has a textured surface that is NOT felt. R&B made their zippered “shell” ATTACHED to the rigid base, which means the zippered shell cannot be detached or removed; some people will want or prefer this rigid, all-in-one assembly, but I did not. I thought there might be a time that I will want to soak or wash the zippered shell, and that could not happen with the R&B brand, since it is attached to the rigid felt base. HAGERTY: The Hagerty brand is fully felted all over, and has the same style of rigid base, but the rigid base is not attached to the zippered covering. The zippered shell covering fits OVER the shaped structure, and does not have to stay attached – you can removed the zippered cover, like a bag. The rectangular base is fully felted and can stand alone (outside the bag) to hold your silverware, like on a table, without being encumbered by the zippered bag. (Not sure why anyone would set it out in the open, but the point is, you CAN. It might help when you are cleaning or storing your flatware, maybe.) This design means that the Hagerty brand outer shell can be fully removed from the shaped drawer liner, and washed if needed (this was important to me…) The Reed and Barton model had the zippered shell attached to the solid base, so the shaped liner cannot be separated from the zippered shell covering. Both brands had zipped shell coverings of a rectangular shape (like a box), which stand perpendicular to the table surface, if you hold up the shell as if it were full. I was worried that it might be round-shaped, or like a trapezoid, but they both were rectangular, to hold max volume. For some people (like me), who plan on stuffing this zippered shell FULL, this matters. The shell fabric is soft enough to lie flat against your silverware and lie against the shaped structure underneath, in both brands, but if you wish to fill up the rectangular volume, you can. The Reed and Barton one was about 3/8 of an inch taller, when you hold the shell up to its max height. For a 3-inch height, this was not enough difference to matter to me. Both shell styles had zippers around 3 sides, so you can open the zippered shell like a suitcase lid. Again, you could fully remove the support tray from the Hagerty brand, but you don’t need to, to fully access the enclosed silverware. You can open the R&B brand the same way, but removing the tray is not an option. Both shells seemed sturdy enough. The fabric was the same between them: soft and fuzzy; thin, but sturdy enough to protect flatware. (Except that the R&B brand had that solid surface on the bottom). Blue for Hagerty, brown for R&B. The fabric was thin enough to be easily folded or pressed down around the flatware, which makes it compact and soft; this also means it could probably be punctured easily, but most of us who are trying to protect out tableware will be careful with this. I kept the Hagerty brand for three reasons: 1. I wanted to be able to clean the outer shell, separated from the shaped structure, if I ever needed to. 2. I will likely (eventually) have more than one of these, stacked in a cabinet, or sitting on top of some dishes in a cabinet, and I wanted a soft surface on the bottom, instead of the hard plastic-like surface that the R&B brand had as its bottom. Both brands hold their shape, due to the rectangular base, but I wanted the exterior of the bottom to be soft, not plastic textured. 3. I have some loose silver cloth that I bought, AND I have a buffet that has a built-in silver cloth liner to lay over my flatware. If I wanted, I could use the Hagerty tray alone, outside of its zippered shell, in my drawer with silver cloth laid over it, and then use the Hagerty zippered shell bag to hold something else (like a platter, etc.). This gives this brand more usage, for me. Sorry I wrote so much, but this was an important purchase for me and my needs, and could not find the info online. Hope this helps!
