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.

* Consulted bibliography:

Musso, Luis Alberto. Uruguay-Brazil and their medals, 1976. P. 180.