The Gorham Silver Company used marks that look like English hallmarks. In England, the lion passant faces left, Gorham’s lion faces right. The anchor is a copycat, and the G is for Gorham not a ...

Gorham was also commissioned to make a special tea set for Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. Silver objects by Gorham were premier items for high society, as shown by a bowl we sold in 2000 in an auction. A ...

GUEST: So this is a Gorham sterling silver water pitcher. It is dated 1893 on the bottom, November 8, I believe. I got this at a thrift store up the road, on a day that I just went to garage sales ...

In its heyday, Gorham occupied 37 acres in South Providence, a home for innovative design and state-of-the-art techniques that took silver-making to a new level. Gorham was also a marketing pioneer.

Chasing Silver: The Story of Gorham is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, ...

Q: A few years ago I inherited a glass vase from a close friend. Included with it was a letter from the gallery where it was purchased in 1977 for ...

The story of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, once the largest silver company in the world, is beautifully captured in “Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970” at the RISD Museum.