"Most—but not all—the pieces have my TT mark on the bottom, along with the year made. Most were made in the mid-fifties, a period of considerable stress for me in my career. By 1956 I was trying to start my own manufacturers’ representative business in upstate New York, which required me to travel and hustle a great deal in order to drum up business. That year I moved alone from Massachusetts to Syracuse, leaving Zan in Reading with Cindy (Lucy), Nancy, and Danny in order to find a house for all of us in the Syracuse area. I rented temporary living quarters in a tiny attic in North Syracuse with a hot plate and a small box refrigerator. The ceiling was too low to allow me to stand up straight. It was there that I spent evenings doing serious carving. The Thin Man, the Lady’s Head, and the free-form Wooden Bowl were products of this period."
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