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1-OF-A-KIND GORHAM STERLING SILVER SET TRAY MARTELE? NO
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Please visit our NEW ebay store and Lauren Stanley's NEW headquarters at
249 E. 48th Street to view this item call Stan for an appointment . IMPORTANT: See SAMUEL J. HOUGH REPORT BELOW Being offered is a fine ONE-OF-A-KIND circa 1899 sterling silver coffee set with sugar and creamer and tray by Gorham , of Providence, RI, each piece superbly chased in a floral and leaf motif with rococo flourishes, the chased relief/design being very high and crisp, the Turkish style coffee pot with flip lid, the two (2) inch outer border also magnificently chased. Total weight 104 oz. Dimensions: coffee pot 11 inches high by 6 1/2 inches over handle and spout; sugar bowl with everted and chased lip 3 inches high by 4 1/4 inches diameter; creamer 5 inches high by 4 1/4 inches over spout and handle; and tray 16 inches long by 12 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches high at rim. Elaborate engraved 'MW' monogram on tray, 'MW' monogram also on bottom of coffee pot, creamer and sugar bowl. Marked as illustrated in photo. In excellent, if not mint condition, with original ivories intact. (The Turkish coffee pot is listed in L.J. Pristo, Ph.D.'s book: 'Martele--Gorham's NOuveau Art Silver. The other pieces, i.e. the numbers in horizontal rectangles, are not listed. The horizonal rectangle with round corners around the numbers indicates the set is a one-of-a-kind set.) The Gorham Black Coffee Set Report by Samuel J. Houg 1597 & 2065 The costing slips for the (1597), Black Coffee Set (box 20) indicate that the entire set of four pieces was completed April 25, 1899, as a sample--a prototype or exhibition piece--to be sold through the retailer Spaulding & Co. of Chicago. The (1597), Black Coffee, which would have been started earlier than the other three pieces, consisted of 21 troy oz. of sterling silver valued at $14.70. Some of the silver was prepared; casting took three and a half hours ($1.25) and chasing the castings took an additional five hours($2). At some point, an hour and a half was spent turning ($0.45), but for the most part the pot was hand crafted in the PP Experimental Silversmiths room, w forty-eight hours ($21.60) were expended to fashion it. The pot was then chased for 105 hours ($52.50); stone for twenty minutes ($0.07); bobbed for an hour and ten minutes ($0.29); and oxidized and finished for about two hours ($0.60). Total labor and materials cost, including $1 for the ivory insulator, was $94.96. To this was added 20% overhead, $18.95; 40% profit, $37.98; and 7.5% administrative costs, $7.60, for a sum of $159.53. The net factory price was set at $152.00. The (2065). Sugar contained 8/5 of sterling silver valued at $5.78. The silver was spun (they didn't time it but guessed at $2) and turned for forty minutes ($0.20). The prepared silver also went to the PP silversmiths, one of whom fashioned the sugar in twelve hours ($5.40). It was then chased for forty-five hours($22.50); stoned for quarter of an hour ($0.05); bobbed for fifty minutes ($0.21) and oxidized and finished, for an hour? ($0.30). With $3.00 for gilding the Sugar was sold for $72.00. The (2066) Creamer weighed 8/2 of sterling silver valued at $5.67. Some of the silver cast took two and a quarter hours ($1.12); the cast chasing took two hours ($0.90). The PP silversmith fashioned it in twenty hours ($9); it was chased for forty-three hours ($21.50) and then stoned, bobbed, oxidized and finished. It too was gilded for $3 and wholesaled at $76.00. The sixteen-inch oblong (2067) Tray for the set weighed more than the rest put together----41/15, valued at $29.23. T was some casting----three hours at $1.50---but mostly it was a challenge for the silversmith, whose twenty-four hours of labor was charged at $10.80. The tray was chased for fifty hours ($25). stoned for an hour and a half ($0.30) and bobbed for an hour and a quarter ($0.31). Oxidizing and finishing took two hours and twenty minut...
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