Hello Fellow Craftspeople and Jewelers,
I’ve been tasked with selling the entire workshop of a friend who’s been a jewelry craftsman for 60 years. My friend Roland (not his real name out of privacy and security concerns) began his career on 47th Street in NYC in his father’s jewelry factory around 1964. However, he refused to take over the business and instead took an MFA and worked as an independent craftsman. He later moved to Tennessee and started a jewelry education program at East Tennessee State University, where he taught for several years. In the recent past he’s made a line of silver jewelry, altho’ early Alzheimer’s disease and an essential tremor forced him to stop creating jewelry about four years ago. Over the years he’s worked in gold and silver and even made liturgical silver chalices and fluted bowls, as well as venturing into enameling and dichroic glass.
In addition to being interested in many facets of the jewelry world, my friend was a bit of a pack rat, so there seem to be about three to ten of everything (I found no fewer than ten karat stamps while packing things up today)…so I have a lot of used equipment to dispose of. Prices will be very reasonable and depend on condition and age. There are lots of items that are from the 80’s or earlier and were made in the USA rather than offshore as now. The money from the sale of these items will go towards my friend’s care while he is living with relatives.
Jeff G, our moderator, was kind enough to let me post this announcement. I will post one or two items directly here, including a monster centrifugal caster that will do a whole pound of metal, but to avoid an endless parade of for sale items here, I have decided to put out a weekly email list of items for sale as I go thru all the boxes now at a storage facility. About the only thing there is little of is hand tools, which were mostly taken by a former student.
If you would like to receive weekly email lists, just send an email with “Send me lists” in the subject line to jewelrystudiosale@gmail.com. If there are particular things in which you are interested, like casting equipment, carving wax, rubber molds or plating equipment, mention that in the body of the email.
If you have questions of general interest regarding what’s available, ask them here, but otherwise use the email given above to ask for information. Thank you for helping me help a fellow craftsman!
-royjohn