[Jewelry making - Article 00168] - Re: [Orchid] Silver granulation

[James Binnion]

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>         I have another thread we could investigate too.  I remember
>     watching a Mokume-Gane demonstration put on by Hiroko Sato and
>     Eugene Pijanowski back in the early seventies when I was one of
>     Phillip Fike's students.   We were actually making the stuff on a
>     coal forge! You'd be astounded at how complicated we were making
>     the process. I'm going to risk that they were the first to bring
>     that technique to the U.S. and would love to hear other opinions on
>     that. 

    I am afraid that you are wrong about the Pijanowski's bringing
    mokume-gane to the US If you will go to this link
    http://www.dia.org/collections/amerart/tiffany/index.html#1985.11
    and look at the bottom of the page you will see a Coffeepot made in
    Tiffany's workshop in the 1870's by a man named Edward C. Moore. I
    Had believed the Pijanowski's had brought the technique to the US
    until I was approached to repair a mokume Tiffany ice cream spoon
    from the late 1800's (I did not work on it as it is a rare artifact
    and it would greatly reduce its value if anyone tried to "repair"
    the defect in the mokume the person was worried about) After that I
    started looking for more info about Tiffany mokume and apparently
    there was not very much of it made and very little remains. I have
    not found anything about their process just some images of some
    pieces. If anyone knows more about Tiffany mokume I would love to
    hear about it. 

Jim
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