Life, 1915-11-04 · page 10 of 56
Life — November 4, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This is an **advertisement**, not a cartoon or satirical content. The page promotes The Gorham Company, a silversmith and goldsmith business based in New York with works in Providence and New York. The ad emphasizes that Gorham produces "the largest makers of solid silver ware of quality in the world." It highlights their sterling silverware's "beauty and individuality of design" and claims it represents "the Silversmith's Art in its highest development." The advertisement lists product categories (table silver, dinner services, tea and coffee sets, toilet silver, and individual pieces) and promises an assortment large enough to suit "every preference...in pattern and at prices to meet the requirements of every purse." The ornate decorative border is typical of early 20th-century luxury goods advertising.
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Sterling Silverware The Gorham Company are the largest makers of solid silver ware of ¢ qually in the world= Besides sessing intrinsic value, Gorham Sil ver is sere beauty and individuality of de- sign, and is accepted as an authoritative ox pression of the Silversmiths Art in its highest evelopment. Lach piece of Gorham Sterling iverware, for your protection, bears this distin- a guishing trade mark Taste Suver~ Dinner Services EA énd Corree Sets ~ Tower Snver ond INDIVIDUAL FIECES of exquisite beauly, are included in the offerings by leading jewelers everywhere. The assortment is so great that every prefer: ence suited in pattern and at prices to meet the requirements of every purse. THE GORHAM COMPANY, SILVERSMITHS ane’ GOLDSMITHS NEW YORK. Works ~ Providence and New York comicbooks.com