This beautiful sterling silver piece will make a gorgeous spoon ring. Dating to 1939 it is estimated to be 81 years old. Would be a perfect Mother's Day gift. As noted below Gorham was a major silver company. Measuring 3" this piece can be made into a size of 8.5 to 11. It can be polished to an exquisite shine or aged with patina, your choice.
Gorham Silver was founded in Providence, Rhode Island, 1831 by Jabez Gorham, a master craftsman, in partnership with Henry L. Webster.
During the heyday of American silver manufacturing, approximately 1850 - 1940, Gorham was highly influential.
In 1893, a French observer was surprised by America's "remarkable fertility in the variety of its patterns for table services." Of the flatware patterns designed by F. A. Heller (1839–1904) for Gorham he wrote "we have no idea of the richness of ornamentation of these services, and of the amount of talent expended by him in the engraving of the dies which he has made on the other side of the Atlantic.
