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发表于 2007-1-16 00:24:09
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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. |
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发表于 2007-1-14 00:52:42
发表于 2007-1-16 14:29:39
,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？