MAKER'S MARK OF GORHAM MFG. CO., PROVIDENCE, 1880

A virtually identical fruit plate was sold in these Rooms at the Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Collection of 19th Century American Silver,January 21, 1994, lot 22.


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A photograph from the Gorham archives, circa 1880, showing the model No. Z.312 (from Gorham Silver, 1997) Courtesy Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, www.art-books.com