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prizes, to stimulate students at this school of design to systematically study the designing of jewelry and silverware.
The
Bradley Polytechnic Institute of Peoria, 111., is an institution
important in its relation to the present subject, having a jewelry
course that has attained and deserves a wide reputation ; the course
extends over a period of from three to five months' duration. The
instruction includes the making and finishing of oval and flat gold
band rings, modelling for casting, signets, designing and production of
jewelry, and all such repairing as is called for in ordinary jewelry
store practice.
At
Indianapolis, an indefatigable pioneer in the instruction of ambitious
artisans in the precious metals is Mr. Charles B. Dyer, who has
inaugurated a local representation of the arts and crafts movement with
a school and a shop in which the hand-made jewelry of the students and
graduates of the school is sold. About forty students were enrolled in
the class of 1908. At a semi-annual exhibition of the students'
hand-wrought products about three hundred pieces were exhibited,
including bronze and copper Work; the items in the exhibition were
inspected with lively interest by several hundred visitors,
