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...enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone out that the elderly gentlemen, members of the Armor & Arms Club of New York, were about to forge a 16th Century rapier with all the ancient rites and traditions...
Kenneth Lynch, little more than 30, host and protagonist of last week's ceremony, is proud to be called a blacksmith, but within the past five years he has become one of the best known producers of handwrought metal work in the country, decorating dozens of hotels, churches, country houses, with screens, grilles, gateways, lanterns. Swords and armor are his hobby; in a few respects his reference library is supposed to equal that of the Metropolitan Museum. Not until last August did he have a shop he considered fit to invite his fellow members to, but the spotless, simple...
...ardent music lover, Blacksmith Lynch was also hard at work on another sword to present to Tenor Lauritz Melchior for his 100th performance as Siegfried this week...
...appearances fun was had. Laval is the son of a storekeeper, and Mussolini is the son of a blacksmith, but for that matter Elena is the daughter of a Montenegrin mountain chieftain who made himself King. One of Her Majesty's ladies-in-waiting has written of Her Majesty's father thus: "He preferred a thousand times his native dress with knives stuck into the broad belt to any other kind, and preferred cutting with these same knives a cold fowl or a piece of mountain mutton as it hung in the family larder to sitting down...
Outstanding among the artists who find just plain painting sufficient excitement is Eugene Speicher. His portrait of "Red" Moore, a brawny New England blacksmith seated in a Windsor chair by his anvil, preached no message at all, was a bargain , for any collector at any price...