Snippets of Information Regarding the Gorham Company

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PROVIDENCE

Ralph J. Flaxon for many years with the Gorham Mfg. Co., died last week at his home in Riverside, age 40 years. He was connected with the Gorham sales forces and had been sick about five weeks. He is survived by his widow and one sister.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th November 1929

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Gorham - Providence, R.I. - 1925

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WASHINGTON, D.C.

Howard I. Dillingham , representative of the Gorham Co., was at Dulin & Martin's store last week conducting an exhibition of Gorham silver. “The Unfinished Masterpiece," a museum piece valued at $4,000, and the famous Queen Charlotte tea service were included in the period silver exhibited. Twenty-eight different patterns of sterling table silver were displayed as well as a wide selection of unique gift silver.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 28th November 1929

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Funeral services for Charles E. Angilly for more than half a century employed by the Gorham Mfg. Co., were held Tuesday afternoon and were attended by a large number of the veteran employes of the plant. He had been in poor health for about eight months, death being due to complications resulting from bronchial pneumonia. Mr Angilly was born in Birmingham, England 70 years ago and came to Providence at the age of 12 years. He is survived by his widow , two daughters, a son, one brother and a grandchild.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 5th December 1929

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Gorham M'f'g Co. - New York - 1904

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1908

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Mr. John H. Buck has been appointed Curator of Metalwork. Mr. Buck is a native of Devonshire, England, where he was born in 1848. He was brought up in the architectural profession and came to this country in 1876. Of late years he has been in the service of the Gorham Company as an expert. Mr. Buck is the author of several books and pamphlets on silverware and has contributed frequently to magazines and other publications.

Source: Report of the Trustees - Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1906

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PURDY TO CONDUCT SCULPTURE SCHOOL

Resigns from Gorham Company to Manage the Institution Founded by Solon Borglum — Noted Artists as Advisors



After being in charge of the sculpture department of the Gorham Company for thirty years, W. Frank Purdy has resigned his position and is to devote himself to the management of the School of American Sculpture that was founded by Solon H. Borglum in 1918. The school, which is at 9 East 59th street, will re-open on October 1 and is to be conducted on the system of sound construction and good drawing instituted by the late Solon H. Borglum. It will be governed by the committee of his advanced students appointed by him. A faculty of distinguished sculptors in all branches is assured.

In his conduct of the school Mr. Purdy will be assisted by an advisory board including Daniel Chester French, Anna Vaughn Hyatt, Frances Grimes, Robert I. Aitken, Herbert Adams, Frederic W. MacMonnies, George Gray Barnard, H. A. MacNeil and Mahonri Young. In addition to conducting the School of American Sculpture, Mr. Purdy proposes devoting his efforts more than he has had time for during his business career to the educational field.

During the last sixteen years of his connection with the Gorham Company Mr. Purdy gave at least fifty exhibitions of sculpture in their galleries, besides arranging others elsewhere, and it is not too much to say for him that he has done more for the practical appreciation of contemporary American sculpture than any man in this country. He will have time now, he believes, to develop his lectures on the appreciation of art that he has been giving with so much success in recent years.

Source: American Art News - 19th August 1922

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“JUNE BRIDE” IS LARGELY A MYTH GORHAM DECIDES

Launches Year-Round Drive For Silverware


Providence, R. I., May 25.—Abandoning the idea of the old school that sterling silverware is a seasonable line to be merchandised in the spring and dropped the remainder of the year, the Gorham Company has launched a policy of featuring sterling twelve months in the year. The company refers to the campaign as the “most continuous and the most forceful campaign for silver in America.”

“In the past we have been content to feature sterling silver to June brides,” commented Paul F. Donelan, advertising manager, “but statistics prove that all months offer good sterling business from newly-weds. Even in the month averaging lowest in number of marriages, there are approximately 6% per cent of the marriages of the year, which is a worthwhile market.”

Copy is now being placed monthly, and is to be continued regularly in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Good Housekeeping. All copy features 26 active Gorham sterling silverware patterns in individual reproduction and most copy features the present silver market as offering an opportune time to start a sterling set or to fill in sets already started.


Dealers Kept Advised

The plan is being put over in a rather unusual set-up. Copy in trade papers is telling jewelers, “How we are creating new customers for you,”
reprints being mailed to the trade. This copy features the theme that advertising is to go into the three named magazines—not spasmodically—but every month, reaching a tremendous market of 2,148,970 homes. Dealers are urged to use local advertising to tie in with the national publicity, the manufacturer furnishing free mats.

For use by salesman the Gorham Company has produced an unusually elaborate and forceful selling book. It is approximately 13 inches wide
and 16 inches high, richly-colored in rose and silver and covered in cellophane. Inside pages are grey with short, forceful messages printed in
various sized black type, one message to a sheet. All stress the fact that Gorham is helping the trade to increase sterling sales, and that Gorham is to advertise every month.

In addition to this large book for salesmen, each dealer is to be furnished with a smaller, less pretentious book, showing, in individual reproduction, each of the 26 featured patterns. Each is to be briefly described, and all are divided according to period. This book is to be used by dealers who stock a small number of the 26 patterns, but who have occasion to show and sell all.

Source: Advertising Age - 27th May 1933

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1933

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John S. Holbrook, vice president of the Gorham Mfg Co., with his family are occupying a house on Central St., Narragansett Pier, where they will spend the season.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 16th July 1919

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OBITUARY

William Stone

Schenectady, N. Y.—Funeral services were held recently in the Albany Rural cemetery, Albany, N. Y., for William Stone of Schenectady, N. Y., who died in the Ellis hospital at Schenectady after a three months illness.

Formerly of Providence, R. I., he was a life member of the Boston Jewelers club and belonged to the Masonic lodge in Union City, N. J., the Order of Cincinnati of Boston, was a past president of the Boston Jeweler’s club, also a member of the United Commercial Travelers of Utica. He was a retired sales manager of the Gorham Company of Providence.

Source: The American Horologist and Jeweler - August 1946

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1930

'THE HUNT CLUB'

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1930

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It is with genuine sorrow that we record the sudden death of Hendrik G. (Heinie) Nelson in Whitestone, L. I., on July 10, 1928. He was drowned while swimming with three companions off a private pier at Whitestone. He was the first one overboard and he had gone well out into the stream when cramps seized him. He shouted for aid and his companions, we are told, just barely failed to reach him in time to save him. "Heinie" was born in Wilmington, Mass., Sept. 12, 1891, the son of Neal and Mary (McDonald) Nelson. He came to college from the Hope street High School, Providence, and after graduation went with the Sayles Finishing Company. He also was in the employ of the American Wringer Company and William Larchar, advertising, leaving the last-named company to go with the Rhode Island artillerymen to the Mexican border. After the United States entered the World War he went overseas as First Lieutenant, Battery C, 103rd Field Artillery, and served with great credit on the Chemin des Dames, in the Toul sector and at Chateau Thierry. On his return from Chateau Thierry he was promoted to Captain and ordered back to the United States to train troops. At the time of the armistice he was Captain in the 30th Field Artillery. After his discharge in April, 1919, he became assistant manager of the Providence Buick Company. Then he went with the Gorham Company, silversmiths, first as head of the flatware production department in Providence, then as assistant superintendent at the Fifth Avenue, New York, store and, in April, 1928, as superintendent. He was a member of the Agawam Hunt, University and Rhode Island Country Clubs and Zeta Psi. He is survived by his father and two sisters, who live in Lincoln, R. I. A sterling soldier, an able citizen and a good companion, "Heinie" played the game honorably, quietly and well.

Source: Brown Alumni Monthly - October 1928

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Gorham M'f'g Co. - New York - 1897

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Clarence C. Chaffee has been transferred from the Chicago to the New York office of the Gorham Company. His address is in care of Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham, 594 Fifth Avenue.

Source: Brown Alumni Monthly - October 1930

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The regular quarterly dividend of one and one-half per cent. on the preferred stock of the Gorham Mfg. Co. has been declared payable Jan. 2 to stockholders of record of Dec. 24.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st January 1919

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The first account of Mrs. Louise W. Aldrich, executrix of the estate of E. Frank Aldrich, formerly a director of the Gorham Mfg. Co., was filed in the Municipal Court on Friday, showing a balance of $103,966.61.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st January 1919

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Michael Consgiglio, 20 years of age, was arrested Monday afternoon, December 23, by inspectors from police headquarters on a charge of the larceny of one cigarette case, valued at $15. from the Gorham Mfg. Co., where he was employed as a silversmith. When arraigned in the evening at a special session of the Sixth District Court he was fined $20 and costs by Judge Gorham.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st January 1919

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