Snippets of Information Regarding the Gorham Company

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There has been on exhibition during the past week at the Fifth Ave. store of the Gorham Co., the Henry Hudson historical window which is to be placed in the New York Historical building when it is completed. The window represents Henry Hudson discovering Manhattan Island, on Sept. 11, 1609, and shows the historic ship Halfmoon at anchor, surrounded by Indian canoes with the green hills of New Jersey in the background. An afternoon scene is depicted showing the descending sun casting its rays on the ship’s rigging and upon the surrounding landscape. The window is 14 feet high by 5 feet wide, and is a gift of the Holland Dames of New York to the Historical Society. It was designed by Frank Ready.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular- 1st April 1908

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LaPierre Mfg. Co. Must Not Make This Design

A decree was entered Saturday morning in the United States Circuit Court, at New York, in the action mentioned some time ago brought by the Gorham Mfg. Co. against the LaPierre Mfg. Co. The suit is over an alleged infringement by the defendants of a design for brush backs patented
by W. C. Codman and assigned by him to the Gorham Mfg .Co. The LaPierre Mfg. Co. did not appear and made no defence to the suit, so the decree was entered by default.

By this decree, which is signed by Judge Lacomhe, the Gorham Mfg. Co. are adjudged to he the sole and exclusive owners of the design in question, and W. C. Codman to have been the first and original inventor and producer of the said design. The defendant company are adjudged to have infringed the patents by manufacturing brushes with a similar design, and a perpetual injunction is granted against them restraining either the LaPierre Mfg. Co., their agents or their employes from directly or indirectly making any brush hacks or similar articles ornamented with the design in question. They are also restrained from using any design embodying the features of that covered by the patent or so closely resembling it as to induce purchasers to believe they were obtaining the original design owned by the Gorham Mfg. Co. Nothing about costs or damages is mentioned in the decree.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 5th October 1898

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CHICAGO

The Gorham Mfg. Co. will start moving into the Silversmiths’ building, 131, 133, 135, 137 Wabash Ave., Friday of this week, and figure on having everything in place by Monday night. A permit has been granted by the Commissioner of Public Works for the construction of a temporary bridge across the alley separating the rear of their present quarters and the rear of the Silversmiths’ building and the wares, excepting the heavy safes, will at no time reach the street level. Following the Gorham Mfg. Co. will be the removal of Benj. Allen & Co., and then Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., F. A. Hardy & Co. and others.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th February 1897

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The Gorham Manufacturing Company has resumed full operations after the annual summer shut down, and every department is now in full swing. The company has on hand several of the largest orders that it has ever been called upon to fill. These include the silver services for three of the Government battleships, the large silverware service for the new Vanderbilt hotel in New York, as well as some notable bronze work. The company now has more than 2,500 employees upon its payrolls.

Source: The Metal Industry - September 1911

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The Gorham Mfg. Co. have entered a judgment for $96 against J. Everett Harler.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 23rd January 1895

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PROVIDENCE

Ernest Meyers, Taunton, Mass., assignor to the Gorham Mfg. Co., of this city, has been granted a patent on a design for a spoon or similar article.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular- 1st December 1909

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The Gorham Co. - New York - 1905

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Notification of Louis A. Herrmann entering business on his own account having severed his connection with the Gorham Mfg. Co.:


Herrmann & Co. - New York - 1897

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Grainger-Hannan-Kay Co. - Detroit - 1916

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ST. LOUIS

Thos. Y. Midlen, manager of the Chicago office of the Gorham Mfg. Co., was in this city last week in company with W. S. Willis, the firm's representative in this territory, he made the acquaintance of the numerous patrons of his house in this city.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular- 2nd June 1897

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The Gorham Co. - New York - 1905

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HIGHEST AWARD FOR SILVERWARE

The awards in connection with the International Exposition of Decorative Art at Turin have just been made public. From these it appears that the Gorham Company, of New York, has received a gold medal, or the highest award, for its silverware. It is said to be the only American firm of silversmiths which has received recognition at the judges' hands, a result the more gratifying to local pride, in view of the fact that the leading artist-craftsmen of England, France, Germany, Austria and Italy, as well as of the United States, vied with each other in this artistic rivalry.

Source: New York Tribune - 7th October 1902

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Gorham Mfg. Co. - New York - 1898

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Gorham Mfg. Co. - Providence, R.I. - 1889

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The Gorham Manufacturing Co. are running their full compliment of men on heavily increased sales for their world-wide and justly celebrated class of goods. During the present year this concern intend to place more goods on the market than ever before, and we feel that their expectations will be fully realized when the grand balancing of books occur about the 1st of January, 1889.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - February 1888

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George Smith Rice, for nearly twenty years representative of the Wilcox Silver Plate Company, and one of the most popular travelers in the silver plate line, has severed his connection with that company, and will henceforth be found at the New York store of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, where he will be glad to welcome his many friends from the North, East, West and South.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - February 1889

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A successful pouring of one of the bronze figures for the South African memorial for Toronto, Can., was made at the bronze foundry of the Gorham Mfg. Co., a few days age.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th December 1909

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PROVIDENCE

Harry Cutler has been elected captain of Company E. First Light Infantry Regiment, the crack independent military command of the State. George W. Rhodes, with the Gorham Mfg. Co., has been elected a member of the company.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th December 1909

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The Gorham Co. - New York - 1906

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Last Wednesday there was a destructive fire in property owned by the Gorham Manufacturing Company at Mashapag pond, near the works of the company, the ice houses of Earl Carpenter & Sons being totally destroyed. The buildings were owned by the Gorham company and leased to the Carpenter concern. A cottage house, owned by the company, and a barn were also destroyed, but the whole loss is covered by insurance. The ice houses will not be rebuilt, as the company intends to use the land for lawn purposes, thus enhancing in a great measure the beauty of the grounds around the works.

Source: The Jewelers Review - 17th May 1899

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