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Gorham Martele .958 Silver Coffee Set and Tray

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Gorham Martele .958 Silver Coffee Set and Tray
Gorham Martele .958 Silver Coffee Set and Tray
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Fine Gorham Martele .958 Silver Coffee Set and Tray, 1919, designed by William Christmas Codman (1839-1923), made by Nels Olai Nelson Haarklow (1873-1944), including a coffeepot, h. 10-3/4", an open sugar bowl, h. 4-7/8", a cream jug, h. 5-3/4", and a tray, 15-1/4" x 12-1/2", of baluster form with "whiplash" framed panels and decorated with prunus blossoms, the tray of shaped rectangular form with integral handles and decorated en suite, the tray inscribed on the underside "Annie Gordon Murdock 1919", 91.78 total t. oz. Provenance: Property from the Collection of Carl Desantis, Sotheby's New York, November 4, 2011, lot 38; also, Sotheby's New York, June 17, 1999, lot 242. Gorham records show that this set - which bears the signature of Gorham's head of design William C. Codman - was finished on June 7, 1919. The maker of the tray and the name of the chaser(s) are not recorded, but the maker of the set was Nels Olai Nelson Harklow. (The name appears variously as Neilsen/NelsenNeilson Haarklou/Harklou/Haarklow, but he himself seems to have settled on the anglicized Nels Nelson Harklow in most of the documentation of his adult life.) He was born in Bergen, Norway on February 2, 1873, the son of Andreas Neilsen and Ragnide Rognaldsen, and was baptized twenty-six days later at Korskirken (Cross Church) in Bergen. (Around the time of his birth, the family discontinued the traditional Scandinavian patronymic and adopted the surname Haarklou after the lands inherited by his grandmother and made famous by his uncle, composer Johannes Haarklou (1847-1925).) He is listed as a goldsmith at the time of his marriage on December 8, 1893 to Anna Andreas Johannesen and in the 1900 Bergen census, but as there is no record of his having received a trade license, he was very likely still working as a journeyman. Emigration records show that he arrived in New York on September 6, 1902, and he is listed in Brooklyn directories as a silversmith in 1904. He soon moved to Providence, Rhode Island, first appearing in Gorham's pay rosters in April of 1905, and the birth of his daughter, Ingeborg, is recorded in Providence on August 29, 1905. (Her mother, however, is not Anna Johannesen, but Marie Rasmussen. Anna remained in Bergen, where she is listed as divorced by 1910 and remarried to Ludvig Larsen in 1918. Whether she and Haarklow divorced before his emigration, or on account of it, is not known.) He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1917, by which time he had settled in Pawtuxet Village, Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island. He was still working for Gorham until at least 1920, and very probably long after. He died in Pawtuxet on January 23, 1944..
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Gorham Martele .958 Silver Coffee Set and Tray

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