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Brent

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iconnumber posted 08-03-2004 08:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brent     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Hello all,

Here is a very interesting Arts & Crafts bowl. The shape is very much in the modern style, but it stands on 3 Georgian / Colonial Shell feet. I imagine it comes form the late 1910's or 1920's, when the Arts & Crafts movement adapted to the Colonial Revival. It is quite heavy, with the silky texture of handwrought silver.

The mark appears to be a conjoined AW, over ANDREWS & WINSTEN. I was thinking that A&W might just have been retailers, but the trademark does seem to be an A and a W. The dealer I bought it from said that the company was in Baltimore, but had no more than hearsay evidence.

Has anyone seen this mark before, or a similar piece?

Brent

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bascall

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iconnumber posted 07-02-2010 12:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Another post rescued from the past:

Listed in New York City Directories from at least 1916 to 1933, Andrews & Winsten Inc, Edwin W Andrews and Albert Winsten jewelers, Fifth Ave.

In the 1920 census Albert Winsten is listed in New Rochelle. I can't make out his occupation, but he is working on his own account in a studio at that time. In the same census, Edwin W Andrews is living in Manhattan and is working on his own account with a jewelry store.

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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 07-02-2010 08:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
NYT September 1, 1952, Monday, Page 17, headline:

    ALBERT WINSTEN, LONG A JEWELER; Co-Founder With Late Edwin Andrews of Company Here in 1916 Is Dead at 86


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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 07-02-2010 09:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
reported in the NYT:
    Edwin W. Andrews, President of Andrews & Winsten, jewelers, of 542 Fifth Avenue was shot and killed in a hold-up on December 16, 1920.

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bascall

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iconnumber posted 07-02-2010 09:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In the 1922 New York City Directory, Mrs Lina F Winsten is listed as the president of Andrews & Winsten Inc. Edwin had no children and judging by the names of the officers in the company, Andrews and Winsten Inc became a Winsten family business.

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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 07-02-2010 10:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
bascall,

Thanks for reviving this thread.

Here is a detailed & lengthy Dec 17, 1920 NYT article (in PDF- 200k) about the robbery.

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bascall

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iconnumber posted 07-02-2010 10:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You're welcome Scott. That is quite a story concerning the robbery. The value of the string of pearls compared to the entire haul is striking. Maybe it just relates to the quality of the reporting. It's quite a trick to get all the facts straight, and there's no question that there was a lot of excitement and interest in what had just happened.

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Brent

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iconnumber posted 07-27-2010 07:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brent     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yes, thank you Bascall. I guess they were New Yorkers!

As an aside, I have seen a bowl of almost identical form made by Carl Forssen of the Handicraft Shop of Boston. I wonder if my old bowl was actually made at the Handicraft shop?

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FredZ

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Brent, I see the similarity to the Forssen bowls I own. The feet are not a style common to the bowls I have seen by this craftsman and I have never seen him use a wire edge on the rims of his bowls.
Fred

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