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swarter Moderator Posts: 2198 |
posted 02-25-2007 04:40 PM
  
This thread is a continuation of Varieties of decorative silver banding [This message has been edited by wev (edited 02-25-2007).] IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2198 |
posted 02-25-2007 04:45 PM
Originally posted by DB: The same milled band as you show under "Rockwell" I have on a John W. Forbes teapot, New York ca.1815-20 (original post by Dorothea Burstyn) IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2198 |
posted 02-25-2007 05:43 PM
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outwest Posts: 376 |
posted 02-25-2007 08:23 PM
I'll try to get a better one of the floral. Maybe if I use the super closeup setting on the camera (need to figure out how to do it). The last band is the bottom of the Kinsey piece. He used three different patterns! IP: Logged |
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vathek Posts: 497 |
posted 02-26-2007 08:56 AM
I'm led to wonder if smaller silversmithies were able to order rolled die banding from larger concerns, hence the duplication of patterns from different smiths. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 2548 |
posted 02-26-2007 10:01 AM
From a Bruce Type Foundry (New York City) specimen c 1820 These are piece ornaments, but the company (founded in 1812) also cut bookbinder's rollettes for producing continuous bands of blind and gilt decoration on books. It would seem a simple step from these to the die disks used to mill silver bands. IP: Logged |
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FWG Posts: 766 |
posted 02-26-2007 10:52 AM
I can't remember where I've seen it, but I do remember reading that milled bands were available wholesale -- just like one could order sheet or wire, one could order milled flat wire with such patterns. The production of the dies to do that is a rather specialized art, and not something most silversmiths probably would've wanted to spend their time on when it could be more profitably spent making silver! One of outwest's examples is rather interesting since it appears to be curved around a conical section of a base rather than around a cylindrical section like a body, rim, or foot. That would most likely be produced by setting the rolling mill unevenly (making it thicker on one side than the other); forging the rolled band after it was produced would likely obliterate the design. But I can't remember seeing another such example. [This message has been edited by FWG (edited 02-26-2007).] IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2198 |
posted 02-26-2007 01:02 PM
Sometimes bands on curved surfaces are deceiving, being embossed - which can be determined by looking at (or feeling) for the pattern on the inside surface - rather than milled and applied over a smooth surface. IP: Logged |
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DB Posts: 172 |
posted 02-26-2007 01:37 PM
In the late nineties I saw an American teapot at Christie's New York with a milled band, which was signed every time the motif repeated. Unfortunately could not "unearth" the example from the catalogues. Yes, milled bands were findings, which silversmiths bought from specialized makers. Just as an aside Viennese silversmiths extensively used milled bandings around the same time (1810-1840), if there is any interest I'll post some pictures - the motifs are curiously similar like Etoile, etc. Interesting subject, congratulations, swarter and wev. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2198 |
posted 02-26-2007 02:12 PM
quote: Narrow bands like Beaded and Gadrooned were routinely applied around irregular surfaces, such as the rims of creamers with no evidence of forging. Softening by heating may have been sufficient, but one of our silversmiths will have to opine on this. As for the application of wider bands to conical surfaces, note the Greek Key band shown in the Standard Pattern section of the Milled Band Glossary. It shows some distortions on the high points of the pattern that may be indicative of tool work. That band is around the "collar" of a small sugar bowl by R & W Wilson (Philadelphia), and is the same width as the one around the foot. Was the one made from the other? Note that the solder joint on the bottom band is evident on the left, where the pattern on the cut ends did not quite match. [This message has been edited by swarter (edited 02-26-2007).] IP: Logged |
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