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antique bust paris france help please :) x
« on: November 07, 2013, 05:40:36 am »
hey all just a question i picked this bust up from a house clearance for 310. its really really heavy i struggle to lift it. on the backj there is some writing but cant make out all what it says i know it says
Bo..... then some other letters
Paris
1921
407
FRANCE
looks handwritten ...
there are a couple of chips on it and under neath looks like a white colour. is this old or not? anyone got any info on it? heres the link for photo bucket x x x
<a href="http://s964.photobucket.com/user/maggiemilner13/media/008_zpsc54def20.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae129/maggiemilner13/008_zpsc54def20.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 008_zpsc54def20.jpg"/>[/url]

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Re: antique bust paris france help please :) x
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2013, 05:41:55 am »
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Re: antique bust paris france help please :) x
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2013, 05:42:57 am »
another pic

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Re: antique bust paris france help please :) x
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2013, 05:49:25 am »
sorry paid £10 not 310 haha x

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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2013, 08:46:45 am »
I've seen this before, or something incredibly similar, and remember thinking it was plaster.

Also seemed to have been artificially " weathered " as if to appear old. Almost an excavated look but something not quite right.

It could be the Bo.. is Borrel, for Alfred Borrel, a French sculptor who died in 1927 but better known for coin and numismatic designs. Possibly this is an " after " example, a copy of one of his busts or made in his manner. It could of course be used to help sell the bust !


Anyway, worth more than you paid but not much more even if a period piece. Cleaned up, i could see someone paying three times as much on a stall.

Keys Auctions sold something similar in 2006. Good auction house.

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Re: antique bust paris france help please :) x
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2013, 11:42:58 am »
Can you please post the dimensions?  Weight?

It sounds as if it is plaster when you indicate that there is white showing where there are chips!  Believe it is a reproduction bust of an original.  Plaster busts were very popular in the early to mid 1900's.  (Nowdays they are generally made in resin.)

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