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Old 01-02-2010, 11:32   #18
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Re: War Memorials

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Originally Posted by Retlaw View Post
Having served my time as a pattern maker, and looking at the intricacy and detail of a lot of figures on war memorials, I've come to the conclusion that those bronze figures on Clayton's war memorial were produced by the lost wax process, and then welded together.

Retlaw.

Remembering back to all the art history lectures I sat through for five years, I think you're probably right. The castings are of too fine a quality to have been produced any other way.
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