Featured Gorham individual soldered silver creamer w/ logo or monogram on side.

Picked this piece up this week. I was hoping someone could help me out with the logo or monogram on the side.

There is a rooster mark to the right signifying 1890.



Thanks for any & all advice or opinions!!

 

In case you are not aware, this is silver plated. The anchor mark alone, without the Lion and G, is Gorham's way of indicating plated.

"Silver soldered" not soldered silver.

 

Thanks @Bakersgma!!

Yes, I know it is silver plated & I appreciate the reminder of the order for the words. That is one of the reasons I put it in the antique section rather than the silver section. I also thought I might get more eyes on the logo or monogram in this section.

 

Looks like the initials D and V. But I don't know what order they were meant to be in. I'm sure somebody here knows. Just the initials of a previous owner, I imagine. Not sure what that part to the right of the initials is. Doesn't look as deeply engraved as the initials.

 

You're welcome as always, Peggy.

I agree with Fig that the letters look like V and D, and suspect that the order would be V first because it is more prominent than the D (less of it is covered by the D than the other way around.)

I also suspect that this may be hotelware. The volume indication underneath (3/16 of a pint) makes more sense in a hotel or restaurant environment than in a domestic setting.

 

Oh, then the initials might be those of a hotel!

 

Yes they could!

 

I'd guess Veterans Department rather than something commercial

 

Not in 1890. Veterans Administration was established in 1930 by Pres. Hoover.

 

Thanks to everyone!!

I tried searching for hotels or restaurants using VD & DV but had no luck. I even tried VO & OV although I was pretty certain it was a D.

The part to the right is weird. It almost appears as if whoever was doing the engraving of the logo never finished.

 

Any thoughts on the monogram or logo on the side?

 

Eh, with the nice engraving, could easily be someone's monogram, first and last initials, (or the first letters of a couple's surnames) - sometimes it's easy to determine the order, the surname initial should be larger and/or fancier, but in this case, it's kind of hard to tell, would guess 'VD' since the 'D' is slightly wider than the 'V' is tall, and the base of the 'V' is shadowed. Have no idea what that weird, sloppy thing is at the right of the monogram - surely some later unskilled addition...

'Silver Soldered' was a pretty standard mark on Gorham electroplate, and though this piece does have a relatively simple design that might point to restaurant/hotelware, many examples of Gorham 'Silver Soldered' wares can be found that were personalized and/or just not a design that would have been intended for commercial use. The size stamp would be common on restaurant/hotelware, but capacity or length is also seen fairly often on both sterling and silverplate by Gorham, as well as other companies.

~Cheryl

 

Thanks @DragonflyWink - I thought I would give this thread a bump up to see if anyone had some further insights. I have 2 other ones to list with this one so hopefully some collector will see this one & want to adopt it when they are looking at the other two.