Posted 3 years ago
Mragazzo
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Old lamp found in one of our properties.
French stamp . Made in USA not sure what the date of 62 is in ref to.
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Possibly made between around 1962 to 66 when Stanley Hirsch went to the Metropolitan Museum to see the exhibit on The Beaux Arts in Paris and the sculptures of that time. Stanley was from the Hirsch Foundry who were making many of the statues and lamps from the 19th century in new productions that were based on castings newly done from the original moulds of 19th Century pieces. These old moulds were in Paris and after the war the HB Hirsch family who had whereabouts of these hidden moulds and went to Paris to dig them up from the floors of the bronze foundries where they had been hidden. Hirsch and his sons brought back from Paris all of over 2000 parts, that his foundry worked on from about 1960 to the early 1980's. A lot of what they made were lamps and put them in their Collection Francaise which is the founders mark for the H.B. Hirsch Foundry which was making them from 99 % spelter. They sold them into the 1980's and that was near the end of the HB Hirsch foundry who made a name for themselves a mystery novel story that was a true story of all these moulds that were secreted back to the USA and whose story read like a true mystery. 1962 may be the date this lamp was first to come into the light. I have seen many of their input and one of the world's experts (H.Berman) in world class Bronze Statues worked there one or 2 days to see the production of the Hirsch Foundry and wrote The Encyclopedia of Bronzes and other Statues showing his work with Hirsch and his study of Bronzes. Stanley Hirsch and Berman were working closely together being brought to their friendship by someone of importance who suggested they meet.