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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 242292, member: 59"]Well, I think I know the numbering pattern for this one now. Sequential numbers. The very same seller has a matching clothes brush and the number on that one is 98, so we know there were at least 9 pieces (90 - 98.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Pieces of a set could be quite numerous - various sizes of clothes brushes, hair brush, comb, mirror (sometimes more than 1 type), nail buffer (and other nail care implements), button hook and various jars and other containers with sterling tops on glass bases.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I saw the same pattern identified by another seller as "Cluny" - but whether that was the official Gorham name is questionable. The one with "buttercup" in the title appears not to match the Buttercup flatware pattern, although there are some small flowers in the design that are at least similar in shape to the ones in the Buttercup pattern. The same type of assumption may have influenced the seller who is calling the vanity pieces "Cluny." You'd have to do a careful side by side comparison to see if it's even a match to the one you really like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 242292, member: 59"]Well, I think I know the numbering pattern for this one now. Sequential numbers. The very same seller has a matching clothes brush and the number on that one is 98, so we know there were at least 9 pieces (90 - 98.) Pieces of a set could be quite numerous - various sizes of clothes brushes, hair brush, comb, mirror (sometimes more than 1 type), nail buffer (and other nail care implements), button hook and various jars and other containers with sterling tops on glass bases. I think I saw the same pattern identified by another seller as "Cluny" - but whether that was the official Gorham name is questionable. The one with "buttercup" in the title appears not to match the Buttercup flatware pattern, although there are some small flowers in the design that are at least similar in shape to the ones in the Buttercup pattern. The same type of assumption may have influenced the seller who is calling the vanity pieces "Cluny." You'd have to do a careful side by side comparison to see if it's even a match to the one you really like.[/QUOTE]
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