This piece is believed to be a recasting from Gorham Co. Founder Foundry. Gorham Silver was founded in Providence, Rhode Island, 1831, by Jabez Gorham. His son John Gorham took over the company and in 1890 expanded business and was renamed Gorham Manufacturing Company. Gorham Co. has been a manufacturer of sterling and silverplate and a foundry for bronze sculpture ever since. Edith Parsons used Gorham Co. to pour her casts. Gorham Co. used different stamps to date their pieces. The Elston statuette is lacking both a signature etching and a stamping from Gorham, leaving us to believe it is an unauthorized recasting of the original 1911 “Duck Baby.”

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