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‘The Gold
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By Joyce Sidey Brogdon
This is the story of a remarkably talented Irishman whose works are so distinctive they need no signature. Master craftsman, “repousse” chaser Edmund Kavanagh’s art carries his inimitable style in every piece, a style he has been painstakingly and lovingly developing over the last fifty years. The skill of repousse, which began in antiquity and flourished from medieval times to the middle of the twentieth century, is a metalworking technique in which soft precious metal is shaped by hammering from the underside. Chasing is done on the front of the piece to finish or refine the raised repouss6. It is tedious, laborious work that in the twenty-first century is considered a dying art. Edmund is among the handful of chasers around the world who continue to ply this ancient craft.
His name is well known among the United States military bandmasters, both academies and the active duty services. He has designed and crafted numerous Maces, Baldrices and Tabards for the Marines, the Coast Guard, the Army, the Air Force, the Merchant Marine and other military bands.
Of the hundreds of chalices, tea services, maces, and trophies that have passed through his competent hands, his flagship piece is the 18-carat gold rose bowl for the 50th wedding anniversary for President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The sheer volume and variety of his work is incredible, as the photographs in this book show. His cusr
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