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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 Registered: Apr 93	posted 08-31-2008 05:46 PM I could have sworn that there was an earlier thread somewhere in the forums about a mysterious mark of SGP on an Arts & Crafts piece of silver but for the life of me I can't find it. Anyway, John Prunier was kind enough to share with us a blurb about this mark and its maker. Panis was born in Dadha, Alabama in Eastern Europe in 1889. He moved to the United States in 1905 and became a jeweler, silvermith and enameler in Boston and later Falmouth, Massachusetts. He studied at the Massachusetts School of Art after serving in the Army during World War I. He exhibited at the Boston Society of Arts & Crafts in 1927. If anyone has any pieces to share with his mark, that would be most welcome. [This message has been edited by June Martin (edited 09-01-2008).] IP: Logged
ellabee Posts: 306 Registered: Dec 2007	posted 08-31-2008 07:19 PM Did you mean Dadha, Albania, June? IP: Logged
June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 Registered: Apr 93	posted 08-31-2008 09:55 PM Interesting that you should ask. I thought the Alabama attribution was strange too, but that is exactly the way it read in the Society exhibition guide that I got the information from. Perhaps this is yet another example of a typographical error becoming fact. IP: Logged
FredZ Posts: 1070 Registered: Jun 99	posted 09-16-2008 12:39 PM June, I own a few Panis brooches and an enamelled tray as well. I will take images of them and post them for you. Panis' designs are still in production by someone who aquired the designs and the right to make them from Stavre's wife Gladys. Though the quality appears to be as good as the original items. The new pieces are still marked with the same SGP in triangle cartouche and so there is no way of distinguishing the old from the new. There is a rather extensive website of the work. I have done an internet search for the Panis website that I used to visit and it no longer appears. Perhaps they closed shop or decided not to have internet exposure. A pity since there was quite of bit of the history of the shop and it's founder. Fred [This message has been edited by FredZ (edited 09-16-2008).] IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 09-16-2008 04:16 PM It is Albania for sure. His WWI draft registration says Dord. Another Abanian with the name Panis was from Korche Darda which may have a connection. There are several Panis's in Alabama which might have caused some confusion about Stavre's birthplace. Stavre's middle name seems to be imprecisely given. In his WWI record it is Gergo and in his WWII draft record he only uses Gror. There's was probably a struggle with converting the name from Albanian to English for him? IP: Logged
FredZ Posts: 1070 Registered: Jun 99	posted 09-16-2008 07:55 PM I corresponded with a retailer of the new Panis jewelry and she explained that the shop is no longer in business. I wonder what has happened to the designs and historic references that the new owner acquired. Best, Fred IP: Logged
June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 Registered: Apr 93	posted 09-16-2008 10:15 PM Thanks all for filling in the missing pieces. IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 09-17-2008 10:02 AM Oh by the way, it looks like Mr Panis was born on 25 December 1889 and died on 20 May 1974 in Brockton, Massachusetts. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 11-14-2010 08:45 PM see: Stavre and Gladys Panis Celebration IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 11-15-2010 08:43 AM When I met Gladys in the early eighties she was an elfin five foot or less and was still knocking out her designs. She needed someone to do soldering and some simple forming for her. She invited me to lunch once and we had raspberries she had frozen from her garden for desert - they had a label saying 1968! I excused myself to wash my hands before lunch and on the way to the bathroom in her tiny, lovely cottage filled with succulent plants I kept running into spider webs at head level, she was so short and never had many visitors and had so many plants (she was an officer of the Succulent Plant Society). She and her house and workshop were magical. I loved doing the work for her and visiting the half dozen times I made it down to Pin Oak Way. I was totally amazed at the huge portfolio of designs she had done over 50 odd years and she was still going strong. If you had ordered something from her in 1940 you could have it made again in 1980. Sea life and floral designs were the main theme but light houses ships and more were there too. All flat chased and pierced. She talked about her husband and it seems that she was living a new life because except for business he never went anywhere or saw anyone. She described him as a "lone wolf". I think she was enjoying being her own master although there was no bitterness as far as I remember. I was very lucky to have met her. IP: Logged
Polly Posts: 1970 Registered: Nov 2004	posted 11-16-2010 01:09 AM Agleopar, what wonderful details--the raspberries, the spiderwebs. IP: Logged

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