GW Fairchild & Sons Sterling Spoon

[z00k]

I've got a spoon marked "G.W. Fairchild & Sons" "Sterling" and "Pat'd". Clearly, I don't really need help identifying the mark but I can't find anything about this company. I looked through the list of marks on this site already and found "Fairchild & Co" of New York as well as "Fairchild & Johnson" but not GW Fairchild & Sons. Replacments.com lists them but has no information at all as to patterns or company history.

Does anyone have information about the company?

Thanks in advance,
Jeff
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[dragonflywink]

Are you sure that your mark isn't L.W. Fairchild & Sons? Rainwater shows that as the name (one of several) used from 1886-89 for the NY company founded as Randall & Fairchild and going out of business as Fairchild & Co.

~Cheryl
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[z00k]

Thanks for the response, Cheryl. Actually I think I just had one of those "duhh" moments. Please tell me if I've got this right:



I'm guessing Fairchild & Sons is a jeweler or at least a retailer but the hallmark is actually the script D for Wm. B. Durgin/Gorham.



And if I'm not completly dense, the pattern is Fairfax, though the butter spreader doesn't exactly match what I have found. Still trying to learn...

Jeff
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[JLDoggett]

Jeff, the G.W.Fairchild & Sons does appear to be the retailer's stamp. As for the shape being different it could either be a master butter, or a creamed cheese knife.
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[silverly]

George Wilson Fairchild of Stratford, Connecticut along with sons George A and Henry L. Their business was in Bridgeport from the late nineteenth century and continued until the second decade of the twentieth century. By 1920, George W was eighty-three and retired.
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