Help with Gorham

[mcornell]

To call myself a novice would be giving me too much credit. My great aunt passed away recently and she left us a decent amount of Gorham silver. I'm trying to figure out what year the pieces are from. The picture above shows the mark (I didn't see anything exactly the same on the Gorham date page), there is also a 'patented 1900' mark farther up the handle.

The pattern has a lot of roses in it (sorry for the bad picture, didn't expect it to be so difficult to take a decent picture of a spoon :) ), so if the pattern can be identified that would be great too.



Thanks for any help.

-Mike C.

[beth]

The pattern is buttercup.

[mcornell]

Thanks Beth....That's pretty impressive. Knowing the pattern with that picture!!!! :)

Any idea on the date, or how to find out?

Thanks,

-Mike C.

[beth]

Buttercup is a very popular pattern...it was easy.

This website can help you with dating Gorham. To me it looks like it matches the hallmarks from the last quarter of the 1900's.

Beth

[admin]

see our page on -> Gorham Patterns of the 19th cent.