Oscar Bach / Segar Studios Art Deco Cigar Stand Bronze Circa 1920\'s New York
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Oscar Bach / Segar Studios Art Deco Cigar Stand Bronze Circa 1920\'s New York:
$125.00
Bach/Segar Cigar Stand Bronze circa 1920\'s New York
Dimensions: 27\" tall, 9\" wide base, ash-pan 7\" across
Weight: 8 pounds
Material: Bronze (maybe brass green patina)
ID: Stamped Segar Studios on base
Soon after his arrival, Oscar Bach and his brother and Max Bach opened a metal design studio together - first in Greenwich Village under the name of BACH BROTHERS. They soon moved to 257 West 17th Street and became Oscar B. Bach Studios, Inc. From 1913-1923 Oscar Bach\'s little metal shop kept busy creating beautiful household objects for moneyed New Yorkers as well as custom architectural works for America\'s great country estates. He worked often with architect Harrie T. Lindeberg and designed exterior and interior fittings for many of Lindebergh\'s clients. Most of his designs from this period bear a metal with the inscription OSCAR B BACH / NEW YORK / STUDIOS INC and a central image of a female profile flanked on each side by a double-struck B. Some also bear the unfielded stamped mark OBASO-BRONZE / OSCAR.B.BACH. STUDIOS.
In April of 1923 the Bach brothers moved to a new studio at 511 West 42nd Street upon an acrimonious split with their business partner, Bertram Segar. Segar remained in Bach\'s West 17th Street studio, renaming it The Segar Studios. There, Bertram Segar continued to reproduce many of Bach\'s original designs and variations on Bach\'s designs, either selling them in an unmarked state or stamping them with his Segar Studios mark. Segar would continue to run a successful custom metalwork studio throughout the 1920s despite Oscar Bach\'s continued denouncing of Segar\'s poor ethics and poor taste. Desperate to protect his reputation, Bach even ran advertisements stating that \"All products designed and executed in my studios bear my facsimile signature, and no other articles are genuine.\" Segar\'s unauthorized production of Oscar Bach\'s designs has caused much confusion in the market today.
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Oscar Bach / Segar Studios Art Deco Cigar Stand Bronze Circa 1920\'s New York:
$125.00