Gorham Silver, 1831-1981
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with silver gilt lettering on cover and spine, black and pictorial dust jacket with white lettering, xii, 322 pp., bw illustrations. VG-/G+ (previous owner's nameplate on inside front cover, signed by the author on front page, all pages clear and intact - dust jacket shows minor wear to edges and spine, few small tears at bottom). Item #182475
ISBN: 9780396080688
"Since 1841, when it was founded, the Gorham Company of Providence, Rhode Island, has grown from a small shop making coin silver spoons to the largest maker of sterling silverwares in the world. Gorham so dominated American silver in the last part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century that, in a very real way, the story of the silver and related metalwares made by them is the story of this American art. Interwoven with Gorham's history in this book are the social forces that led to the creation of an astonishing variety of wares: hundreds of flatware patterns, silver pocket knives, Mrs. Abrham Lincoln's tea set, and presentation pieces ranging from modest racing trophies to the mammoth eight-foot-four-inch 'loving cup' made for Admiral George Dewey in 1899 from seventy thousand dimes. Together with the illustrated history of silverware styles of the 1850-1950 period, there are chapters on souvenir spoons and the Gorham bronzes. In addition to Gorham's commercial silverwares, the company made a line of innovative Art wares. These include the silver and mixed-metal pieces of the 1870s and 1880s, and Martele William Christmas Codman's line of handmade silver, one of the important manifestations of Art Nouveau in America. Illustrated with 295 black-and-white photographs, eight color plates, as well as forty photographs of marks and photographs of 313 flatware patterns for identification, this handsome volume will be invaluable to the collector, the dealer, the curator, the auctioneer, the appraiser, the art historican, and those interested in America's artistic heritage." - dust jacket description.
OCLC: 8280430
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