Messages

1

Antique Questions Forum / Re: UPDATE ON BRONZE

« on: September 28, 2012, 11:29:41 am »

Hi everyone. mart your right. i thought the forum did cast bronzes thats why i posted large close up pics. becouse my partner said the detail was not good enough to be a good bronze and the forum said exactly that.  i no its worth loads but i am still very interested in why i cant find one picture of the original. as i said the only one i can find have gold dressers on the base is different and the direction there heads are facing is different. mine is a copy. so why cant i find another. there seems to be hundreds. if you google AFTER EMILE ANDRE BOISSEAU. THREE GRACES and look on images you will  see . loads in auction sales [all the same in gold dressers] anyway. sapphire your so sweet thank you for your kind wards. i hope you gave that jewelers a piece of your mind the ignarant sod. sure i would have spun his chair out the door. i can understand why they called it junk. [not to me] when you see the close up pics i posted. if you goole. metal casting forum it should be first one. just click on it. it will say bulletin at top. click on general foundry talk. think mines 10th down. i said its got a new home in the garden. but its still pride of place in me room.

2

Antique Questions Forum / UPDATE ON BRONZE

« on: September 27, 2012, 02:22:04 pm »

Hi all. well up date on my bronze. iv had me hopes and dreams shattered. im  . i posted large close up pictures on the. metalcasting forum. one member said he would melt it down for belt buckles  . not very nice. but at least they didnt hold back with there rather brutal opinions. they said it was. junk. said the detail was rubbish and not good. Anyway at least i will be able to rest now rather than having grand dreams of handing me notice in lol. im still going to keep it. its not junk to me. it will take pride of place in the room.

3

Antique Questions Forum / Re: information on large bronze please.

« on: September 16, 2012, 10:12:48 am »

Hello. you do make me laugh reading your thoughts on english phasers and sayings. mine at the moment is. do one. Or. jog on. This i would use if i dint like or whant to talk to that person. or who i think is an idiot. i am 44 years old and talk with a broad yorkshire accent and still say a lot of old sayings. some of the younger genaration i work with find it hard to understand what the ek im ona about. if i go 20 mile away from where i live i will hear a different accent there are so many. in county duram. a nice girl would be a. canni lass.  i could go on and on some of them are very funny. my dads scotch and i stuggle to understand him best of time. by when hes had a few to manny whiskeys you no chance. he talks a load of dribble. do a goole search on yorshire slang words it will make you giggle. and then you have people from londen. they have the most bonkers phases of all. you need to read them. keep you amuzed for a while. answering your questions about the bronze. yes i did see it in the charity shop as selling it on. but i took it home and stood it on a table next to my oppen fire with a large lamp hovering over it. it looked amazing. the more i looked at it. the more reluctant i was. then i did all my searches on the net and to my frustration still cant find the original. my partner knows his antiques as he used to have a shop. he collects clarice cliff. and knows nawt about bronzes. but hes always told me if you ever find owt do a search and if you dont find out then think about how hard it is to buy that item. if theres nothink on the net than its summat special. and rare. if you do find your item then its 10 a penny. and this is why im like a dog with a bone. becouse i cant find it. the only one i did was stated as AFTER. as was guilded with a different base. i wont settle till i find a bronze expert. when an auction house dealer isnt sure. then surley alarm bells start ringing ?.  so now im trying to find that pearson. if it was only valued like the chappi said £150-200. then i would rather keep it becouse all the searching iv done on this artist and his work on the net hasent come up trumps. then i know i will have to pay a bit more.

4

Antique Questions Forum / Re: information on large bronze please.

« on: September 14, 2012, 06:53:50 am »

Hi bigwill. guess where iv just been. By ek your good i was going to go miles away to harrowgate. i phoned them up he said bring it down. its only down the road from me. as soon as he saw it and held it. he said its definatley a solid bronze. he looked it over. looked at the name and date he said to be of the period matching the date.  i told him all the info iv done and found on the net. he got all his books out. said with him being an auctioneer he could get more info than me. he had a look and came back with the only copy that i could find of the guilded bronze with the different base. i then told him it was the same as i had found that the base and guilding was not my bronze. his face looked puzzled as he kept examinig it. i asked him why couldent i find one like mine ?. he couldent answer me and whent on the net again. he said he would put it in his sale for. £150-200 pound. and gave me the option of having somebody else look it over.  i thanked him for looking at it for me and said i would think about it. now im woundering what to do next. my heads in over drive

5

Antique Questions Forum / Re: information on large bronze please.

« on: September 14, 2012, 04:29:15 am »

Hi bigwull. yes Halifax england. not australia. The weight i told you was wrong. i set my scales wrong. iv weighed it again in the light. lol. it weighs 14lb. 7oz. i am going to take it along to an auction house near me tomorrow to have it looked at. i will post and let you all know. i will not get my hopes up. by the way i paid £40.00 sterling for it. iv just noticed the other copy that iv seen with the guilding on. the bases are different. still frustrated that i cant find any info on this chappie. only auction house sales.

6

Antique Questions Forum / Re: information on large bronze please.

« on: September 14, 2012, 02:51:13 am »

Hello again. chuffed means very happy. im a yorkshire lass and live in halifax. west yorkshire. england. Mart i am so daft yes  i missed the paris bit. it Reads EMILE ANDRE BOISSEAU PARIS 1879. i have taken close up pics for you.

7

Antique Questions Forum / Re: information on large bronze please.

« on: September 13, 2012, 04:10:55 pm »

Hi bigwull. if i was so lucky. lol. wouldent it have a foundrey mark on it ? if it was real.  i find it frustrating that i cant see an original of this bronze anywhere on the net. only the copy in gold guild. and who do i take it to so they can have a look.

8

Antique Questions Forum / Re: information on large bronze please.

« on: September 13, 2012, 03:04:48 pm »

Hi. i would first like to thank everybody who has commented on the bronze im realy chuffed. Thank you. i have weighed it. it 15.6 gk. height is. 15.5 inches. the base is 10 inches long. The base in the pictures looks round. but it isnt its more oblong. i do not see any foundry marks i only see the name on the base. i should have sent a picture of the back as you can see the tree trunk it only comes up to the middle laddies legs. this is the ony bit with the metal wire and some kind of crumbling plaser/resin? all the rest is solid. the pictures somebody posted is the one i have seen. but as you see this has gold guilding on has the artist name as well as the foundrey mark and this is a copy. mine does not have this mark only the name. But why cant i find a picture of the original bronze in a museum. i find this odd One again  Thank you for helping me.  ps. also i cant find any bronzes that have a thick 3 inch plinth like this one. they all seem to be marble bases. ? pssent a pic of the tree trunk. this is the only part that has metal rods and the crumbling  filling.

9

Antique Questions Forum / information on large bronze please.

« on: September 13, 2012, 12:14:43 pm »

Hi everyone new to the forum. looking for info on a large bronze i bought in a charity shop. i thinK the statue is The Three Graces ?. its very heavy. the plinth is about 3 inches high. its hollow in the tree trunk part it seems to have a metal rod enbeded in some kind of crumberly white resin. on the bottom of the plinth at the back it reads Emile Andre Boisseau 1879. i did google the name looking for a picture of original but only managed to find a copy and that was in gold guilding not plain bronze like mine. i would like any info, and im curious about the metal rod and resin ? in side. whats that all about.