Behind the Scenes

Here at Danforth, unveiling new products is one of our favorite things.

Our team spends a lot of time imagining, designing, creating and handcrafting new ornaments, jewelry, home decor, and more. Each piece is the result of many, many hours of imagination and handiwork, and we take an enormous amount of pride in each and every one. With each one, our intention is

A few times a year, we have the pleasure of unveiling a wave of new designs, all of which are the result of months of hard work. This past month, among those new designs were the Wobble Chicks, three adorable friends who are here to celebrate spring.

But where did they come from? If you’re familiar with Danforth, you might be wondering how we came to encounter such

If you've been with Danforth Pewter for some time, you might have noticed something recently: our discounts are fewer and farther between.

Even our selection of Retired Products, which are often available for a lower price than normal, is smaller than it's ever been. Given

If you’re familiar with Danforth, you’ve probably heard us say that we make everything we sell by hand. But unless you’ve been to our workshop or seen our videos, it can be hard to picture what that means. How exactly can a pewter ornament—or netsuke, or gnome, or earrings—be handmade?  

It’s a great question. Our products don’t

Have you ever wondered how our Annual Ornaments get made?  

Like all the ornaments we sell, they’re designed in-house, carved by hand, then cast in fine pewter in our workshop. In fact, it’s how all our jewelry, frames, and netsukes, are made, too. 

But