Edward Severin Clark NY Capitalist Fabulous Large Gorham Sterling Inkwell 1891

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Edward Severin Clark NY Capitalist Fabulous Large Gorham Sterling Cut Glass Inkwell 1891  (Biography Below).
Noted Cooperstown NY Developer, he also owned The Dakota Apartment building in New York City.
The large heavy cut glass pedestal foot swirl pattern inkwell by Gorham Sterling is prominently engraved to the collar: "
Edward Severin Clark July 6 1891".
5" wide.  5" tall.
Exceptional clarity to the glass as expected.  Impressive size and weight, it weighs well over 3 pounds.
Shows very nicely.  We note a hard to see bruise to the edge of one of the cut scallops around the base.  It is not chipped or repaired, you have to catch the light just the right way to see.  It is pictured in the last three photo enlargements.  New to the market, it has never been offered to the collecting public before.
Edward Severin Clark
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Edward Severin Clark
(July 6, 1870 – September 19, 1933)
[1]
was an American businessman, and the owner of the New York City apartment building
The Dakota
.
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Early life
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Clark was born on July 6, 1870 in
Neuilly
,
France
. He was the eldest of the four sons of
Alfred Corning Clark
(1844–1896) and Elizabeth (
née
Scriven) Clark (1848–1909). The brothers grew up in New York City and
Cooperstown, New York
.
[2]
After his father's death in 1896, his mother remarried to Bishop
Henry Codman Potter
.
[3]
His paternal grandfather,
Edward Cabot Clark
, was
Isaac Singer
's partner in the
Singer Sewing Machine Company
, and built
Manhattan
apartment buildings, including The Dakota. His grandfather died during construction of The Dakota and bequeathed it to Edward, his 12-year-old grandson and namesake.
[4]
Career
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Edward and one of his younger brothers,
Stephen Carlton Clark
, built a number of large buildings in Cooperstown, including
The Otesaga Resort Hotel
(1909), the
Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
(1918), and the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium (1930).
[5]
Another brother,
Robert Sterling Clark
, founded the
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
.
Personal life
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Edward, who never married nor had children, died at his farm in Cooperstown on September 19, 1933.
[1]
"Fenimore House," the mansion he built for himself overlooking
Otsego Lake
, is now the
Fenimore Art Museum
. His former dairy farm is now the
Farmers' Museum
.
[6]
He donated the sculpture
The Great God Pan
(1899) by
George Grey Barnard
to
Columbia University
in 1907.
[7]
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