SILVER IRONY: The market value of silver flatware, like this service for 12 of Towle El Grandee sterling, ranges from $14,000 to buy it new or, since buyers are scarce, one-tenth that amount to ...

A new 46-piece set of Towle El Grandee sterling, which is still available, retails for $13,000, Bourbonnais told me. I mute my phone to cough.

Of all of the many industries native to Newbury-port, probably none was more well known nationally and even internationally than the Towle Silver Manufacturing Company. Organized in the 1880s and ...