Word: silversmithing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sweden's most distinguished writers, announced last month that he had burned the manuscripts for a new five-volume series of novels. His angry explanation: "Practically everything I earn is taxed around 100%. It is all my life's work that is being stolen." Silversmith Rey Urban, 46, moans that while his products are in demand everywhere, "I don't dare produce on a large scale" because of the taxes. In order to avoid records of transactions and hence a tax on earnings, there has even been something of a return to barter. Example: a dentist will...
...even more grievous loss is John Singleton Copley, perhaps the greatest painter this country has yet produced. Still only 38, he is just now reaching the peak of his powers. There is scarcely an eminent person in Boston who has not sat for him, and his portrait of Silversmith Paul Revere is masterly. (He has also portrayed many non-Bostonian notables like Thomas Mifflin, who was recently made a brigadier general in the Continental Army.) But it was his fortune, or misfortune, to marry the daughter of Boston's most successful dealer in tea, Richard Clarke...
...Pierre Hotel that no Fifth Avenue window shopper would know it exists. Ferragamo, a shoe salon, is set back from the avenue and not easily spotted by the unknowledgeable. "Most of our customers are celebrities," says Piero Nuti, general manager of Ferragamo. "We seldom see anyone else." Silversmith Ugo Buccellati is happiest when his sales force entertains only two customers a day. Gucci, which has two boutiques on the same block, spurns lunch-hour shoppers by simply closing for lunch-an Italian tradition that Manager Antonio Cagliarini explains is "good for the employees and for our type of business...
...used to worry about being too intellectual," he says. "People used to talk about being self-indulgent and elitist. But now it seems important to enjoy what you're doing." He describes a summer he spent in New Hampshire working as a silversmith, supporting himself by selling jewelry on the Boston Common. But the silverworking equipment is all in a closet now, a closet Irons doesn't dare open for fear it will all spill out onto the floor of his already-crowded apartment...
...fished a landscape out of a garbage can ten years ago was assured by the experts that it was worth $6,500. A Brooklyn couple who brought in what they thought was a "Communion tray" learned that it was an enamel punch bowl crafted by a czarist court silversmith, worth up to $15,000. A Manhattan secretary who produced a battered pottery dog used as a plaything by her children was informed that it was Ha'n dynasty (206 B.C.A.D. 220) porcelain, worth $5,250, which might have fetched $25,000 if it had not been damaged...