SHEFFIELD DATE LETTERS CHART / SILVER HALLMARKS UK
The tea service was presented to the National Museum of American History in Grant asked Gorham to commemorate the country's one-hundredth anniversary in with a spectacular Century Vase that contained over 2, ounces of sterling silver. In a charter was granted by the Rhode Island legislature by the name of "Gorham Manufacturing Company". In the company relocated to a factory on Adelaide Avenue in Providence.
In the famed Gorham designer, William C. Codman, designed Chantilly, which has become the most famous of Gorham's flatware patterns.
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Matching holloware has been made in both sterling and silverplate. The company was purchased by Textron in , a move that some critics claim decreased quality due to management's lack of understanding of Gorham's specialty, producing high-quality sterling silverware and holloware.
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Gorham was owned by Brown-Forman Corporation from to until it was sold to Department 56 in the Lenox holdings transaction. Related Pages at The mark letter changed annually in May, the cycles of date letters were usually in strings of 20 and each cycle was differentiated by a changing of the font, letter case and shield shape. Originally, makers' marks were pictograms, but by the beginning of the 17th Century it had become common practice to use the maker's initials. A letter "F" in an oval cartouche was stamped alongside the regular hallmarks, the maker's mark being that of the British importing firm sponsor's mark.
Beginning in and new system was instituted in which each assay office stamped its own symbol as the import mark, this replaced the town mark.
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The lion passant mark was replaced by a numerical standard mark. Unchanged were the required date letter and sponsor's mark. Items bearing British Import marks will sometimes have additional marks from the country of origin, sometimes not. Examples of British Import Marks.
London, England - Present The crowned leopard's head was used - , the uncrowned from - Present. York, England - Until only city mark, date letter and maker's mark. Edinburgh, Scotland - From to present, a lion rampant mark same as Glasgow's has replaced the Thistle as the standard mark.
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Glasgow, Scotland - Until only city mark, date letter and maker's mark. In the duty mark was created to indicate a tax on the item had been paid to the crown. The date letter system was introduced in London in elsewhere as the hallmarking system evolved.