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HISTORY
Edgardo Vaz's
history like jeweler and stamp maker has their roots in his father,
Anselmo Vaz, who in the year of 1943 arrived to Montevideo to work in the
company Tammaro *, the one that had been founded in 1888, it already had a
long trajectory in the national commercial and artistic means, as the
most noted minter company in the Río de la Plata.
Mr. Tammaro
came from Italy, with his stamps maker occupation, in
immigration trip to Buenos Aires, but when going by Montevideo, he was
captured by the city and he decided to be resided in this country.
Here
he founded his factory, and in it, during years, first alone and then
helped by his son Jerónimo, was devoted to the art of open
stamps and to stamp medals, creating a true national school in this art.
Passed
for the house Tammaro for work reasons, the sculptors of more fame, like
José Belloni and José Luis Zorrilla de San Martin among others, and
national events of importance had not been commemorated without pieces
coined in this factory.
In
that exquisite atmosphere of artists and sculptors, Anselmo, Edgardo's
father, became one of the most renowned minters in the country, being the
enameled of jeweler's pieces one of his best artistic qualities.
At
the end of the decade of the ´60 Tammaro's family moved away
from the company and little time later Mr Anselmo Vaz became the main director of
Tammaro S.A.
Edgardo
distributed the time, during his childhood and youth, between his
studies and the factory, where he was in full agreement of the global operation of
it.
He
began to know and to manage each machine, each tool, and he also
accompanied his father in the visits to the clients, what offers him
the possibility to obtain a great experience in sales.
Although
his preference is in the sculpture,(engrave of
stamps) and there he aims all his creativity, achieving an enviable fraternity with the
chisels and the burins, all tools used in the
sculpture in steel.
Starting
from the year 1977 Mr. Anselmo Vaz moved away of the company Tammaro,
passing to retirement, and then Edgardo began his own history making
stamps to the jewelers, task that it would go him introducing in a definitive
way in the world of making jewels and other artistic
pieces.
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Consulted bibliography:
Musso,
Luis Alberto. Uruguay-Brazil and their medals, 1976. P. 180.
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