Masterpieces of naturalism: Gorham's Narragansett flatware.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: Curb, Charles S.; Hood, William P., Jr.; Olson, John R.; Thompson, Willis H., III | Copyright information

Narragansett. To the student of anthropology, this is the name of a tribe of Native Americans of the Algonquin family formerly living in Rhode Island, now almost extinct. To the student of geography, the term refers to Narragansett Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Rhode Island named for the Indian tribe (Fig. 1). To the serious student of American silverware, Narragansett is a nineteenth-century flatware pattern made by the Gorham Manufacturing Company of Provide...

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