I have found silver patterns on eBay that have enabled me to add to my collection. Keep searching regularly, if you don't find what you need right away.
Hollowware is serving dishes and accessies which are hollow, or concave.... dishes and bowls. Silver hollowware is hollowware made of silver.
Chantilly is a pattern. Sterling silver is not pure silver, it is 925 parts out of a thouand, or 92.5% silver
The EP on Gorham silver means "electro plating". It is not a sterling silver piece.
"Chippendale" is the name of the pattern. You can think of it as a collection; "the Chippendale collection." The manufacturer (in this case International Silver Co.) would make a whole line of flatware, hollowware and serving pieces with the same matching pattern.
It means Electroplate the number is the pattern
1908
worth nothing it is plated
any article made from iron or alternatively sugar candy
Information about Gorham Silver can be found in two primary resources offline including the books "Silver in America, 1840-1940" and "Gorham Silver, 1831-1981". More recent information can be found on their website and also online at other encyclopedic sources.
None. Redemption for silver metal was discontinued in 1968.
today it would be over a $100-$1000 depending on where you sell it
No. When the US deregulated the price of silver back in the 1960s, the practice of redeeming silver certificates for metal was discontinued.