Vintage Siro Toffolon Wall Clock

CLOCK IS UNTESTED.

Siro Toffolon was a noted industrial designer famous for his designs of sterling silver flatware, watches, antique guns, and clocks.

Siro Toffolon was born in Meriden, Connecticut on April 5th, 1932. Educated in local schools, he studied and graduated from Wilcox Technical School in 1951. He also attended Meriden High School, where he took morning classes while attending afternoon classes at Wilcox.

Following his graduation from Wilcox, he went to work for the International Silver Company in Meriden as a designer and created his first accepted commercial design. Thus began a career that catapulted him to global recognition as one of America's most renowned designers of silverware, jewelry, antique guns, and clocks. He was one of the world's foremost experts on Colonial Silverware and Kentucky Long-guns. He lived his life-long passion for Colonial Americana and was an accomplished lecturer on the subject. He has more than 450 silverware designs to his credit. Toffolon's career spanned more than 30 years at International Silver – as an employee until 1967 and then as a consultant. Since the 1970s he continued to work as a freelance designer and created flatware patterns for Gorham, Reed & Barton, Stanley Roberts, and Lunt. During his time at International Silver, he studied with some of the world's great designers in France, Italy, Germany, and Denmark. Toffolon's best known sterling pattern is Masterpiece; other famed sterling patterns include Pine Spray, DuBarry, and La Strada. He was involved in a number of local organizations, including a stint as president of the Meriden Historical Society. He was involved with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Winterthur Museum, Delaware; and was a member of the Kentucky Rifle Association. Toffolon has designed more than 300 clocks, many for the famed Seth Thomas Clock Company. His design work is also represented in the collections of the Remington Arms Company, Cambridge Silversmiths, Lenox, Oneida, Krementz Jewelry, among others. In 1984, Toffolon designed an antique-filled Connecticut riverfront home in Old Lyme, where he and his wife, Ellen Ann, lived for many years. Ellen Ann passed away on April 11th, 2008 and Siro reunited with his wife up in Heaven on March 20th, 2015.

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