William B. Durgin Silver Company

Durgin Silver is a silversmith that has produced some exquisite and original cutlery designs that are prized by silverworks collectors today. They are mostly considered antiques and are passed on within families from one generation to another. These are in every sense your grandmother's silver, but with a deviant artistic twist. If your grandmother's silverware has the authentic Durgin trademark, then it was most likely made by William B. Durgin Silver Company, an American company based in Concord New Hampshire. The company was at it's peak in the mid 1800s.

Durgin Silver was a supplier for high end cutlery, flatware, centerpieces and hollowware for the New Hampshire, Providence and Rhode Island areas. The company was dissolved when it sold to Gorham Manufacturing in 1905. The most popular Durgin sterling silver patterns where the Colfax and the Chrysanthemum. A set of Durgins will value today into the thousands of dollars, the record being $28,000 just for one set. Gorham sold silverware under several names, including Durgin after they had bought the company in 1905. Which is why designs created using the Durgin brand after 1905 is credited to Gorham rather than Durgin, even when the pieces holds the same trademark.