Snippets of Information Regarding the Gorham Company

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Gorham Will Award Silver Bowl To National Curling Champs



Gorham Manufacturing Co., Inc., of Providence, has created a trophy for annual presentation to the U. S. men’s curling champions.

The Scottish winter sport was introduced in this country in 1830, predating baseball, football and even golf.

The trophy, designed by Donald Colflesh, is a huge punch bowl, 20 inches in diameter, with a 10-gallon capacity. Around its rim is a chased freize, showing “skips,” “sweepers” and other players. A replica of a curling stone (which looks something like a tea-kettle) decorates the cover of the bowl, which is pebbled to represent the ice on which the game is played. The bowl rests on a black wooden base which holds silver placques, on which winners’ names will be inscribed for the next 10 years.

A total of 324.55 troy ounces of silver went into the trophy, and 11 craftsmen worked on it for 355 hours.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - August 1957

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The Providence-Attleboro branch of the American Electro-platers Society was represented at its recent convention by an attractive display arranged by the Mark Weisberg Laboratories. Included in the display were 36 individual jewelry finishes, colored by John F. Brady, Inc., an unusual application of heavy silver plate on flat-ware by the Gorham Mfg. Co., an example of spot silver plating on spoons by Reed & Barton Co. and a group of white metal castings by the Mark Weisberg Laboratories. The Providence - Attleboro branch was represented by Mark Weisberg, Donald Wood and Charles Chace.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - September 1939

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Concord Silversmiths, Inc., Concord, N. H., which was organized in 1931 by employes of the former Durgin Division of Gorham Manufacturing Company, is in active operation, producing sterling silverware. Firm operates following departments: tool room, casting shop, spinning, stamping, soldering, polishing. Recently a “stockholder’s visit” to the plant was attended by 300 people.

Source: Metal Industry - March 1932

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Adams & Ortman in Charleston, S. C., won a full case of imported champagne recently in the “floating bottle” contest sponsored by The Gorham Co. Gorham tossed numbered champagne bottles into the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Great Lakes, sent a few corresponding numbers to each dealer. Bottle-finders could bring their catch to any Gorham dealer, get a free place setting of a new-design silver pattern. If the bottle number matched one held by the dealer, the dealer got a whole case of the bubbly stuff.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - January 1959

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1936

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1939

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Gorham Profit for '43 Shows Decrease

Due largely to sharply increased taxes, and the conservative precaution of setting up reserves to meet any possible shrinkage of inventory values, the annual report of the Gorham Mfg. Co. for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 1944, showed a decrease of $118,410 in the net profit from the preceding 12 months, despite the fact that gross income was up by $317,333.

The company was engaged almost entirely in war work during the past year, and encountered considerable difficulty arising out of the government’s cutbacks of production schedules on some of the kinds of items that Gorham was making, but on the strength of its good record was able to secure other war contracts to replace the cancelled business. However, the uncertainties involved in war work under present conditions prevent any forecast of operations for the months ahead, reports President Edmund C. Mayo.

The company is in sound financial position, with a substantial surplus, and no liabilities except current ones outstanding. Ratio of current assets to curtent liabilities is better than ten to one.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - May 1944

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The Gorham Co. will reopen on full time a week from next Monday, after a two weeks’ lay off. The shops are closed in order that an account of stock may be taken, although the designers are being kept at work. The company has recently drawn a design for a huge $4,000 loving cup, which one of the Chicago railroads is to offer as a golf trophy next Summer.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 5th February 1908

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1939

ENGLISH GADROON

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1939

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The Gorham Mfg. Co. - Lullaby Division - Providence, R.I. - 1960

LULLABY

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Otis E. Read, for 40 years a silversmith with the Gorham Mfg. Co., died Jan. 2 at his home in the Pawtucket suburb. He was born at Berkeley, Mass., in 1861.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - February 1937

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1937

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Samuel H. Whyte

Providence, R.I. — Samuel H. Whyte, 64, internationally known master silversmith, died Feb. 10 in Rhode Island Hospital after a week’s illness, of pneumonia.

At 20 he came to the United States and entered the employ of the Gorham Mfg. Co. About a year later he went to New York and became associated with Tiffany Co., and afterward went to San Francisco and entered the employ of the Shreve Co. In 1906 he entered the employ of the Reed & Barton Co., Taunton, Mass., and later came to Providence to join the William J. Feeley Co. A short time thereafter he once more entered the employ of the Gorham Mfg. Co., which connection lasted 14 years.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - March 1937

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1957

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Alfred K. Potter, vice-president and treasurer of the Gorham Mfg. Co.; Henry D. Sharpe, treasurer of the Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. and Frederick A. Ballou, treasurer of B. A. Ballou & Co., Inc., were elected directors at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., on Dec. 11.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - January 1935

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Gorham Mfg. Co., Inc., will move its large Chicago headquarters from 10 S. Wabash Ave. to the Merchandise Mart, in which it will take more than 4,700square feet of floor space, under a 10-year lease becoming effective in March.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - January 1937

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The Gorham Company - New York - 1917

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1938

NOCTURNE

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Edwin F. Johnson, who completed 50 years as a metal spinner in the employ of the Gorham Mfg. Co., Inc., has been retired.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - August 1936

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