FOREST CRAFT GUILD
The Forest Craft Guild was started by Forest Emerson Mann in 1905 and closed sometime around 1918. Mann was a student of artist/design professor Arthur Wesley Dow at the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn) around 1902. He gradually made his way to Grand Rapids, where he founded the guild. The guild is believed to be responsible for many of the lamp shades produced during the period by the Stickley Brothers and Charles Limbert.
Forest Craft Guild copper & brass pieces will have a finely finished edge; a subtle hammering all the way around the borders. Unmarked pieces can be identified by their standard patterns and designs. As evident in the photos here, look for square & dot repoussé patterns; scarab motifs; dragons, abstract whiplash, Celtic, or geometric acid-etched work; stones of the same color/size; and reticulated scenes that repeat in various objects.
