Help with Goreham mark - Please

[Michael.j1]

Am in UK and difficult to identify American silver -
H 223 Sterling Silver G.M Co .925 Triangle and g
Estimate of date and confirm if Goreham would help - thanks Mike
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[Waylander]

Have you tried perusing this site before posting? If so, you may have found this web site - http://www.925-1000.com/Gorham_Date_Code.html

Hope it helps

Waylander
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[dragonflywink]

I've seen Gorham marked "G.M. Co.", used on pieces for export to the U.K. (believe the regular Gorham pseudo British-type marks would have been confusing). Would guess the triangle is the Birmingham import mark, used since 1904, and you should be able to date it by the "g" date code (perhaps 1906).

Cheryl ;o)
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[silverly]

That is a great answer Cheryl. It's a shame people don't come back with responses on something like that. I'm not picking on the British alone. This was all done on the same day. I'll never understand it.

But who knows; maybe their computer broke, and they were such a novice with computers that they didn't know how to get back to this site once they were back online.

Or has common courtesy gone the way of common sense, not so common any more.
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[silverport]

Hello silverly et all

Thank you silverly that you've imagined also the other side and give several excuses.

Isn't also often, that after have got an answer, that answer was directly fit in sales information's, and after sale only money count's there?

I guess that more of half of the questions we've got here, be for to sound a sale or a buy only. Maybe also Investment related question's from collectors, or from historians who give collector's advice. More seldom from engaged collectors.

If we like to serve with our knowledge, and have thousand's of hour's invested in sounded research - a kind of crude ignorance seems to be often normal.

Horrible are these with »low input« who ask to get a »high value output«, e.g. »Please designer, maker, date, material, and all background information as well TIA«

I guess: Maybe nobody of these would later contribute with risen knowledge?

The rose on which »The little Prince« has taken care, made him unhappy and sad with her character. Then he has taken a decision to leave.

Last day of care his rose said (excuse me that I write this part in Portuguese - an English version of the chapter VIII you could find maybe some where?): »Duas ou três lagartas terei mesmo de suportar para ficar a conhecer as borboletas. Dizem que são tã bonitas!«

But to read the questions and see all this different objects, marks ... we wouldn't see them by our art dealer - and on midnight you could type in »Search« e.g.: Peabody

You would most times find in «925-1000« some thing, which helps - phone your Art dealer, he say's: »I’m from tomorrow on for four weeks on holiday.«

Let's hope that quality of »Input« rise up by own research in advance - and that taking photos of marks would be done with more care.

Last but not least, that shown photos remain visible!

Kind regards silverport
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[silverly]

Silverport,

Your posts are always excellent. I know you are working with a second language, but your messages come through just as clear or clearer than mine with all your knowledge.

Thank you,

Pat
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