Gorham Sterling Silver Creamer & Open Sugar Jack Shepard -- Free Shipping *

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-- Gorham Mini Sterling Silver Creamer and Open Sugar. History. Gorham Silver was founded in Providence, Rhode Island, 1831 by Jabez Gorham, a master craftsman, in partnership with Henry L. Webster. The firm's chief product was spoons of coin silver. The company also made thimbles, combs, jewelry, and other small items.
This petite set, circa 1943, has melon shaped bowls and scrolled handles.
Gorham Mini Sterling Silver Creamer and Open Sugar (#612, #613)
Hallmark: Gorham Lion, Anchor, G Sterling 613 Number 7 in a square, 1/2 pint (creamer)
Hallmark: Gorham Lion, Anchor, G
Sterling 612 Number 7 in a square (sugar bowl)
Manufacturer Status: Discontinued. Circa: 1963 -
Pattern: Jack Shepard (Sterling, Hollowware) by Gorham
Description: Sterling, Hollowware Only
Grams: approx 230.49 ( about 7.4 troy ounces)
2 1/4" H x 2 1/2" W
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About Gorham
In the early 1880s Gorham began casting ecclesiastical items, such as lecterns and in 1889 the cast its first statue, The Skirmisher by Frederick Kohlhagen, located at Gettysburg National Military Park. In 1896, its casting of W. Granville Hastings bust, Judge Carpenter was the first in America using the lost-wax casting method. The foundry went on to become one of the leading art foundries in the United States.
A 1928 book published by the Gorham Company, Famous Small Bronzes - A Representative Exhibit Selected from the Works of Noted Contemporary Sculptors, featured full page photographs of sculptures by such notable sculptors as: Chester Beach, Gutzon Borglum, Allan Clark, Cyrus Dallin, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Laura Gardin Fraser, Harriet Frishmuth, Emil Fuchs, Karl Gruppe, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Isidore Konti, R. Tait McKenzie, Edith Parsons, Alexander Phimister Proctor, and Mahonri Young. the company also cast monumental works for such luminaries of the American Renaissance as Augustus Saint Gaudens, Daniel Chester French and James Earle Fraser (sculptor).
The Smithsonian archives of American art list Gorham foundry over 700 times in its inventory of American sculpture.
Gorham as a sculpture foundry
About Gorham Silver
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