1930s Architectural Silvered Foundry Form, Mold, Casting, Sculpture Garden

Industrial foundry form, factory casting, beautiful silver zinc and black original paint, wonderful patina, stepped Art Deco (Paul Frankl) design, would make an amazing coffee or cocktail table. See other listings for additional foundry molds. Foundry molds and patterns are wooden tools, carved out or built up to create negative space, which in turn is used to make the inverse form or shape to be used for the casting of metal. To make a wooden mold, wood needs to be stacked up, like a relief, or cut-out, like a sunken relief, with handles or other pieces to grab and pick up the mold from the molding material. Individual pattern pieces that get packed into the molding material are carved and shaped. The space or forms that these pieces make in the molding material will be the inverse of the final cast piece. These antique foundry molds...

Large antique, Industrial factory wooden foundry form mold, wheel, cog, gear, very unusual and rare size measuring 52" in diameter, retains original facto...

Large iron floral and leaf design store display. Recently salvaged from downtown buffalo New York department store.

1930s leather medicine ball, nice color and patina.

From the artist: “PORN,” 2018, 6 foot tall x 5 foot wide. Salvaged early 20th-century store sign letters, blue light bulbs, electrical wiring is a satirical homage to Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture, re-examining the state of human relationships, in fact, the state of humanity itself, nearly 50 years after Indiana completed the first rendering of his iconic sculpture. In his version, porn, assemblage artist Bill Nelson...

Wood sculpture made from foundry wood molds.

Aluminum 4-piece garden sculpture.

A large wooden ship’s propeller blade foundry casting mold loosely mounted on a round plinth as a display sculpture, with ebonized mounting base. A grea...