WDC烟斗有人了解吗？
戳记是三角形里面品字排列的WDC三个字母和William DeMuth，google搜索了一下好像没什么信息，有人说是个不错的牌子，还请哪位了解的大大介绍一下:) 终于找到点信息了，看来William Demuth是海泡石时代的大师？各位老斗客能否补充点啊William Demuth （1835-1911），德国人，16岁时到美国。1862年建立自己的公司，专营烟斗，烟具和其他雕刻品。其倒等边三角形内的WDC商标广为人知。
William曾受命雕刻US第二任总统、第30任总统的海泡石像,花了两年时间完成一32英寸的海泡石雕刻杰作-哥伦布登陆美洲。
Willam与身为海泡石烟斗鉴赏家的总统James A. Garfield是好朋友，曾赠送2个烟斗作为总统1881年就职典礼的礼物,一为总统肖像，一为总统夫人肖像。
William Demuth. (1835-1911), a native of Germany, entered the United States at the age of 16 as a penniless immigrant. After a series of odd jobs he found work as a clerk in the import business of a tobacco tradesman in New York City. In 1862 William established his own company. The William Demuth Company specialized in pipes, smoker's requisites, cigar-store Indians, canes and other carved objects.
The Demuth Company is probably well known for the famous trademark, WDC in an inverted equilateral triangle. William commissioned the figurative meerschaum Presidential series, 2? precision-carved likenesses of John Adams, the second president of the United States. (1797-1801) to Herbert Hoover, the 30th president (1929-1933), and "Columbus Landing in America," a 32-inch long centennial meerschaum masterpiece made in America that took two years to complete.
The Presidential series was the result of Demuth's friendship with President James A. Garfield, a connoisseur of meerschaum pipes. Demuth presented two pipes to Garfield at his inauguration in 1881, one in his likeness, the other in the likeness of the President's wife. Later, Demuth arranged for another figurative matching the others to be added to the collection as each new president acceded to the White House, terminating with President Hoover.
18世纪末到上世纪初，一些小烟斗生产作坊聚集到了NY的周边，其中就包括WDC和后来成为凯伍迪的KB&B，这些作坊基本是欧洲移民开的，烟斗师傅受过法国、德国和澳洲烟斗制作老传统的熏陶，风格类似，精于用古老的风干阿尔及利亚石楠和顶级的土耳其海泡石制作传统斗型烟斗。经常用琥珀或胶木材料作斗嘴，喜欢金银饰。
By the turn of the last century, a number of small pipe making factories had collected in and around New York City, including the William Demuth Company (WDC) and Kaufman Brothers and Bondi (KB&B), later to become Kaywoodie.From the design and quality of execution of these pipes, I believe the factories must have been staffed by European immigrants, probably Jewish, who had been trained in the older traditions of pipe making in France, Germany and Austria.The pipes they produced were in a similar style. They were expertly cut from very old, air-cured Algerian briar in classical shapes or from the finest grade of Turkish meerschaum; they sometimes rather small; they often had amber or bakelite mouthpieces, gold or silver fittings.
拿几把WDC印证一下
这个牌子的斗我曾经收罗了不少,最初的想法很单纯,反正人都死了一百年了,多少会有些收藏价值,这么有题材的烟斗,日后一定可以变本加厉的变现.烟斗一途,听一千讲一万不如审视实物两三把.以我收罗WDC的经历而言,该品牌之良莠不齐,杂乱无章,风格多变可以跟女人的小脸蛋媲美,特指爱你在心口难开的那一款女人.
先贴几张有代表性的WDC跟大家共享,老是在村里大作卖斗广告,也应该做些贡献不是?
我正在淘宝上卖的还有一把是WDC很传统的斗型和做法,搜索"Mr.Demuth"既可,或者搜索臭名昭著的店铺"完事抖一抖". CAPBLACK提到给总统送礼的事儿.再发一张图
回复 #4 adam_ii 的帖子
呵呵，这个可是Washington总统哦，威廉送的好像是加菲尔德总统，而且是海泡石斗哦。不知王兄是否藏有WDC的海泡石斗啊？
从目前掌握的资料看，威廉.德穆思先生似乎在海泡石的雕刻上有很高的造诣（作品能受作为海泡石鉴赏家的加菲尔德总统赏识并收藏于白宫） 一个发现:有关Willam Demuth Co.的shop figures(店铺图饰？）、Show figures(招贴图饰）和雪茄箱的木刻图饰等在一些古董和艺术类文章倒有不少介绍，像 alph Sessions在古董杂志（Magazine Antiques,March, 1997 ）的文章Ship carvers and the New York City shop figure style和Antiques and the arts online的文章The Image Business Shop and Cigar Store Figures in America，及专著The Shipcarvers' Art:Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America（普林斯顿大学出版社出版） 中都提到William Demuth Co.的店铺、招贴画和雪茄箱等的木刻图饰:L,好像还有几位图形大师为William Dumeth 工作过。这些东东似乎在米国或NY的木刻艺术（美术？）史上有一定的地位。有关其烟斗的介绍却少之又少，是因为烟斗本来就是小众的东东？
不过从上述信息以及有关WDC海泡石斗的介绍，可大略推知老Dumeth也许是雕刻匠出身，那么其烟斗的雕刻工艺或艺术性或许是更值得期待的，如雕刻精美的海泡石斗（呵呵，总统的礼物）、石楠斗的艺术造型或刻图和金银图饰。
另外，WDC烟斗好像并未随着老Dumeth（1835-1911）的归西而落幕，据Bill Feuerbach III 撰写的The history of S. M. Frank & Co（同样位于NY，号称美国最老的烟斗作坊）.在1937年初S. M. Frank曾意图买William Demuth Co.位于Richmond Hill section of Queens烟斗厂，并最终使WDC成为了生产两公司所有烟斗的子公司（后来陆续收购了Kaywoodie, Yello-Bole and Medico 等公司）。而WDC的主流斗威灵顿（Wellington）系列一直到1976年才从S.M. Frank的供货目录上消失。值得一提的是S.M. Frank的宗旨似乎是提高一般烟斗客都能负担的品质烟斗（offer a quality pipe at a price that the average pipe smoker can afford.）:L 这可能就是抖一抖兄叹WDC“良莠不齐,杂乱无章,风格多变”的原因吧！
以上是近几日学习的搜索学习的结果，属于现炒现卖:L 由于对于古董、艺术一窍不通，E文水平有限，难免偏颇，希望能起到抛砖引玉的效果。
PS：顺便提一下阿尔法.塞森斯（alph Sessions），这位仁兄是Director of Drawings at the Spanierman Gallery, New York. 曾担任Chief Curator of the Museum of American Folk Art; Director of the Abigail Adams Smith Museum, New York; and Director of the Historical Society of Rockland County, New York
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