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Metals

 

Pewter bowl

Making a simple, boring pewter bowl into something eye-catching takes a bit of imagination and the right technique, but the results can be very effective.


FOundry Pour

Pouring molten iron at a foundry is the step at which the pattern maker’s work finally takes form through metallurgy and technical know-how. And you don’t get many shots.


BRASS CANDLESTICK

Making the geometric forms of this copy of a seventeenth-century brass candlestick become tactile in a two-dimensional image takes the right lighting and a simple setting.


South Seas Co.

The South Seas Company was a highly speculative English venture whose collapse in 1720 caused a nationwide financial collapse. But the company continued in existence, and even minted its own money. This is the back of an original 1723 shilling on a copy of a game of the South Seas (Caribbean).