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All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1837 VR item #1435646 (stock #4445f)
Old Friends
$58.00
Born in 1785 in Albany, New York, sources indicate that Thomas H. Carson was working as a silversmith in that city in 1810 and in partnership there with Green Hall 1814-19.

This lengthy, 8 7/8" long, 1.9 T. oz., serving spoon is stamped with the "C&H" mark indicating that partnership.

The form is consistent with the period. The handle is plain front with a rounded end and a midrib on the backside and a plain drop on the heel of the bowl...

All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1837 VR item #1482628 (stock #5403f)
Old Friends
$75.00
The name Gorham immediately evokes Jabez Gorham of Providence, Rhode Island, and the legendary firm he founded.

The same surname, however, appears in the history of 18th and 19th century silversmithing in New Haven, Connecticut.

This minor dynasty included Miles Gorham, his son by the same name, and his nephew John, whose "J. Gorham" mark is imprinted on this lengthy, 8 7/8", 1.5 T. oz. coin silver spoon...

All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1800 item #1487373 (stock #5518f)
Old Friends
$210.00
Price for the set of six.
Although primarily a New York City Silversmith, Louise Belden in Marks of American Silversmiths and other sources note that William Grigg spent some years in other locations, namely Albany 1770-78, and Halifax, Canada, 1782-89.

He was a freeman worker in 1765, dating this group of six, matched, 5 1/2" long, just over 3.0 T. oz. (95 grams) the lot, to the decades between then and Grigg's death in 1797...

All Items : Silver : Coin Silver : 18th and Early 19th Century : Pre 1837 VR item #1487636 (stock #5528f)
Old Friends
$100.00
Price for the set of six.
As documented by Flynt & Fales in The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, Eleazer Wyer, born in Boston in 1786, learned goldsmithing from his father (of the same name), and his sister married silversmith Timothy Keith, so the trade was clearly a family tradition.

Eleazer relocated to Portland, Maine about 1806, and from 1814-18 was in partnership there with Charles Farley...

 
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