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| Text and photos by Mike Jackson, Jackson Hole, WY |
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Steven Parrish's
Sample Plates:
Steven is shown here in his "Sunday best". All his clothes were carefully hand made by his wife, Marie. He normally wore a green outfit with a white shirt when working on his bank doors and windows. Along with his dapper appearance, he visited his clients armed with a brief case or two and a few sample pouches—filled with actual gold leaf mini-projects.
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| His neatly arranged leather brief case contained business cards, note pads, a sample or two, and the normal odds and ends. |
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| Marie, a professional seamstress, made several ingenious carrying cases for Steven's samples. Once unsnapped, the cases flattened out easily to view six glass plates. Each plate was 6.5" x 10", done on 1/2" plate. The examples below are just a few he might have carried in with him on a sales call. |
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| This piece was 8" x 8" and did not fit into the carrying cases. The field behind the shield was damar varnish, tinted with umber or asphaltum, and textured with fine curly-q circular squiggles. |
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| The piece above demonstrated three panels commonly used onSteven's bank doors. This piece is 12" square on 1/4" plate glass. It also had a protective felt wrapper, made by his wife. Though it might appear black in the photo, the dark areas are actually prussian blue, semi-transparent ink. Steven developed a two sided gilded windo message. When entering, the customer would see something similar to the above image. When exiting, the top and bottom (symmetrical) messages read the same. The bigger panel often had the message, "Thank You, Please Come Again!" instead of the hours. Two layers of gold were sandwiched between the ink panels. Varnish was applied over the inside panel to protect the gold. |
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