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Philip Simmons (June 9, 1912 – June 22, 2009) was an American artisan and blacksmith specializing in the craft of ironwork. Simmons spent 78 years as a blacksmith, focusing on decorative iron work. [1] When he began his career, blacksmiths in Charleston made practical, everyday household objects, such as horseshoes. [1]
The anvil serves as a workbench to the blacksmith, where the metal to be forged is worked. Anvils may seem clunky and heavy, but they are a highly refined tool carefully shaped to suit a blacksmith's needs. Anvils are made of cast or wrought iron with a tool steel face welded on or of a single piece of cast or forged tool steel. Some anvils are ...
The place where a blacksmith works is variously called a smithy, a forge, or a blacksmith's shop. While there are many professions who work with metal, such as farriers , wheelwrights , and armorers , in former times the blacksmith had a general knowledge of how to make and repair many things, from the most complex of weapons and armor to ...
Samuel Yellin (1884–1940) was an American master blacksmith and metal designer. Early life and education. Yellin Studio in 1915. ... Yellin died in 1940, but the ...
Francis Whitaker (November 29, 1906 – October 23, 1999) was a blacksmith in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he established The Forge in the Forest.He had The Mountain Forge, in Aspen, Colorado, which he later relocated when he was named an artist-in-residence at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado.
Employed as a blacksmith. Died age 39. [29] Stevenson's grave in St Omer: William George Mudge 17 November 1927 Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery Employed by the IWGC in July 1921 as a Gardener's Labourer. Died age 36. Previously served with the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). [30] William's grave in St Omer: George Edward Wright
He later became a blacksmith and manufacturer in Cambridge, Wisconsin. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He sold his blacksmith shop to Otto Krull in 1943. [ 3 ] Legreid died at his home in 1944.
In addition to the Blacksmith tokens that imitated English and Irish regal coinage of George II and George III, Wood also pointed out a second series of Blacksmith tokens which he considered to be "curiosities and puzzles", consisting of mules that mixed up dies from various store card tokens with other crudely made dies. [16]