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Mr. Yellin was a well-known artisan of the 20's and 30's in Philadelphia, whose works may be found at Princeton University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College and many other public and private buildings and homes in the United States.America's Most Renonowned Metal Worker and often called the Tiffany's of Metalworking, Samuel Yellin (1885–1940), American master blacksmith, was born in Galicia Poland where at the age of eleven he was apprenticed to an iron master. By the age of sixteen he had completed his apprenticeship. During that period he gained the nickname of "Devil," both for his work habits and his sense of humor. Shortly after this he left Poland, traveling through Europe to England, and from there, in 1906, he departed for America. By 1907 he was taking classes at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and within a year was teaching classes there, a position that he maintained until 1919. These are truely 1 of a kind piece's and  No 2 design's are alike. This switchplate is GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC, all hand tooled design's and it bear's the name of Samuel Yellin stamped into the lower right hand corner. This is my last double switch style cover.