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chicagosilver Posts: 227 |
posted 01-08-2011 10:22 AM
  
[17-0475] The Kalo Shop made a lot of bowls -- historical records show different marks for at least 184 different bowl styles. One of the earliest and nicest was a series of small (5" - 6" W), heavily hammered bowls with chased designs in the insides on the bottom. Here's a typical example: These bowls were made before the Kalo Shop started using style numbers. The earliest are marked simply KALO / STERLING, although we've seen one with a STERLING / HAND BEATEN / AT / THE KALO SHOPS / PARK RIDGE / ILLS. stamp. This probably dates them to around 1906-1908. We've always wondered which silversmith made these lovely objects. The answer may be Falick Novick. Novick, a Russian emigrant, moved to Chicago around 1906 (the year the Kalo Shop started focusing on metalcraft), and did a lot of freelance work for Kalo. Novick's signed copper bowls and some of his later silver trays are indistinguishable from those with Kalo marks. Here's a small silver bowl with pronounced hammering and a similar chased flower, signed F. NOVICK / STERLING: Novick was a top maker who (like most metalcrafters of the period) doesn't get the respect he deserves. IP: Logged |
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Brent Posts: 1507 |
posted 01-08-2011 10:34 AM
I'll bet you are right. Is Novick's relationship with Kalo documented anywhere, or is is something you have found through your research? Thanks for posting! Brent IP: Logged |
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chicagosilver Posts: 227 |
posted 01-08-2011 10:59 AM
According to Sharon Darling in "Chicago Metalsmiths" (p. 97), Novick "produced dozens of low, round copper bowls for the Kalo Shop until 1920, when Clara Welles discontinued the sale of copper. In later years she often commissioned silver trays from him." We have many boxes of both Kalo and Novick bowls, and these are often so similar that we invariably end up putting some by one maker in the other's storage container. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-08-2011 01:54 PM
Relatives say that Falick had at least two brothers Pesach who was a coppersmith and in Illinois prior to 1910 and Samuel B whose occupation is given as coppersmith in the 1910 Brooklyn, New York census. Just because it's out there, here is a link to an image of Falick and family: Jewish Women's Archive IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 01-08-2011 07:05 PM
Bascall, That image appears in Darlings book "Chicago Silversmith". I own a hammer that belonged to Novick. Years ago an eBay seller was offering his tools. I contacted him and he told me that he had spent years with the Novick heirs convincing them not to trash his tools and business records. He was able to save the tools and sadly the Novick's designs, and records were destroyed. The tools were eventually sold to a metalsmith in the Northwest. I believe the same metalsmith acquired the tools of John Pontus Petterson. The hammer I have has an N marked on the head. Fred IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-08-2011 07:29 PM
Fred, Thanks, I figured at the least the photo could be used with permission, so it's not surprising that it is found elsewhere. It's a great glimpse at those bygone days. Pat IP: Logged |
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