Greetings
and Salutations!
It has been
a very busy holiday season. Before we
get started, we’re wishing each of you a wonderful and safe holiday. Be well, be warm and be happy!
As readers
of this blog, you know we tend to get a little excited over acquisitions of
Duff Tweed’s carvings. *wink* Heck, the
entire blog is dedicated to his carvings!
With that in mind, you can imagine how excited we would be to obtain an
actual drawing or illustration done by the man himself! Quite a few of Duff’s carvings have
illustrations on the back frame, typically of the Disney characters Goofy or Donald Duck.
What we
have to share with you today is a drawing done by Duff Tweed prior to his
employ with the Disney company. This
piece was available on Ebay and we worked out a deal with the seller to obtain it. We paid significantly more
than we do for a carving, but this is the first drawing we have from Duff and
are proudly adding it to the collection.
We feel lucky and privileged to be able to share this piece with you
today. It is undoubtedly the oldest piece we have from Duffield Tweed.
Before we
share the pictures of the piece, we thought you should hear from the seller,
Nancy, in her own words. First is the
actual description placed in the Ebay auction:
ORIGINAL
DUFF TWEED DRAWING OF JOHN EAGLES, HEAD MAITRE'D OF THE FAMOUS MOUNT ROYAL
HOTEL's KON TIKI RESTAURANT IN MONTREAL, CANADA
FROM
BEFORE HE WORKED WITH WALT DISNEY AS AN ANIMATOR, DUFF TWEED WORKED FOR THE MONTREAL
THE
MOUNT ROYAL HOTEL WAS WHERE ALL THE US
CELEBRETIES STAYED AND ITS MAITRE'D WORKED WITH THE FAMOUS AND HELPED OUT ITS
GUESTS AND THE RESTAURANT'S CUSTOMERS, ONE OF WHOM WAS DUFF TWEED .
HE
DREW THIS PORTRAIT OF JOHN EAGLES FOR AN ARTICLE ON HIM FOR THE GAZETTE. MONTREAL
"To
John in appreciation of many favors. Sincerely Duff Tweed "
John Eagles was the father of my Mom's first cousin (I knew her
as Aunt Lucy). I found this when she died 10 years ago. Through
stories that Lucy told me and from Mom talking about the article, I realized
that this was connected with the Walt Disney animator of the 1950's.
While communicating
about the purchase of the drawing, we received this reply from Nancy:
I have
seen your blog and appreciate your enthusiasm for Duff Tweed 's
carvings. This portrait is a one-of-a-kind discovery for us here in Montreal Montreal 's
connection with New York Montreal
My buy-it-now price would be $???. (Nope, not sharing that. *LOL*)
Are you interested?
We were extremely interested and jumped on the opportunity to add it to
the collection. Thank you Nancy
Now, direct
from Montreal , Canada
Duff
Tweed’s thank you to John Eagles of MOUNT ROYAL HOTEL'S KON TIKI RESTAURANT in Montreal
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| JOHN EAGLES, HEAD MAITRE'D OF MOUNT ROYAL HOTEL'S KON TIKI RESTAURANT IN MONTREAL, CANADA |
This is a
fantastic piece. We love the old feel
and look of the drawing. It’s obviously
a period piece from around the 30’s and truly depicts caricature drawings from that time.
Making a
huge SHOUT OUT TO NANCY for allowing us to share this piece with the
world. We are equally grateful for being
able to add this beautiful piece to the Duff Tweed carvings collection.
Thank you
for visiting our Duffy corner of the world and hope you will come back soon.
We may soon have another never before seen carving for the collection. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed!
Wishing you
health, happiness and prosperity now and for the coming year! We're just full of positivity today! :-) Thanks again Nancy!!!
All the
best!
Joe
