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"John C. Moore's Flatware", Spencer Marks Ltd. "A Legacy of Sterling Silver", Tiffany & Co. Silver in America, 1840–1940: a century of splendor, Charles Lane Venable, Dallas Museum of Art, 1995, page 320. Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers, Dorothy T. Rainwater, Judy Redfield, Schiffer Pub., 1998, pages 222–223.
[1] [2] Moore made many improvements in manufacturing processes, adding flatware to Tiffany's silver catalog in 1869. He won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1867 for his exhibit of silverware, [ citation needed ] another medal at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, [ citation needed ] and a special gold medal in 1878 in Paris.
Tiffany & Company, Union Square, Manhattan, storage area with porcelain, c. 1887 Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young, [12] in New York City, as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium", with the help of Charles Tiffany's father, who financed the store for only $1,000 with profits from a cotton mill. [13]
During the heyday of American silver manufacturing, from 1850 to 1940, Gorham was highly influential. William Christmas Codman, one of Gorham's most noted designers, created the Chantilly design in 1895, which has become the most famous of Gorham's flatware patterns. The company has produced matching hollowware in both sterling and silverplate.
Lunt Silversmiths was an American manufacturer of fine sterling, silver-plate and stainless steel flatware, holloware, and giftware established in 1902. History [ edit ]
Britannia silver, a higher grade silver alloy (95.8% compared to Sterling silver's 92.5%) Argentium sterling silver, a higher grade silver alloy with unique working properties (93.6% or 96%) Coin silver, .900 fine silver widely used in pre-1964 United States coinage; Pound sterling, the official currency of the United Kingdom, which once was ...
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Standing Cup by the William B. Durgin Company, gold, circa 1900. The William B. Durgin Company (1853–1924) was a noted American sterling silver manufacturer based in Concord, New Hampshire, and one of the largest flatware and hollowware manufacturers in the United States.