Sterling Over Bronze Art Nouveau Humidor

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Early 1900’s Sterling Silver Over Bronze Art Nouveau Tobacco Humidor Storage Canister. Heintz. Arts and Crafts. Heinz. Silver Overlay. Kettle … more Early 1900’s Sterling Silver Over Bronze Art Nouveau Tobacco Humidor Storage Canister. Heintz. Arts and Crafts. Heinz. Silver Overlay. Kettle Form. Great to use on desk or bookcase, storage in kitchen or bathroom.

Starting in 1903, a few years before the Roycrofters produced their first copper letter openers, Otto Heintz took over the Art Crafts Shop in Buffalo, changed its name to the Heintz Art Metal Shop and began producing an extensive line of vases, bowls, desk accessories, picture frames, jewelry, bookends and a limited number of monumental table lamps.
Just as Artis Van Briggle and Teco Pottery utilized molds, Otto Heintz turned to the lathe rather than the hammer to produce his unique line of metalware. And rather than copper, his craftsmen attached pieces of bronze to the lathe and ‘spun’ each form by pressing the thin bronze sheet against spinning forms with wooden mallets. Heintz invented and patented a secret method of attaching decorative sterling silver overlay to each piece without the use of messy solder. The silver overlay is decidedly Arts & Crafts in the handcraftsmanship it required less