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Collectables => Metalware & Metalwork => Topic started by: Anne on February 19, 2008, 07:23:35 PM

Title: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Anne on February 19, 2008, 07:23:35 PM

Heredities were based at Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria, and made cold-cast bronze items like this boy and dog sculpted by P Parsons. The detail on the Heredities pieces is usually very good, I believe that the company went into liquidation some years ago, and the range was later bought out by a company called Genesis.

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Tigerchips on April 14, 2010, 05:22:53 PM

I have two in the style of Heredities but they are marked TOSA 1997. I wonder if they are related?

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Anne on April 14, 2010, 11:14:24 PM

Are they dogs TC? A TOSA is a type of Japanese fighting dog apparently... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosa_%28dog%29

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Tigerchips on April 15, 2010, 12:04:19 AM

No they are, ahem, male and female figures doing what they shouldn't be doing, lol. I'll post them in another thread, that is, if it doesn't break the board rules.  :24:

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Anne on April 15, 2010, 11:02:28 AM

Ooooerrrr!  (maybe add a warning to the topic subject!  :censored:  :24: )

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Tigerchips on April 15, 2010, 06:06:16 PM

Reading the first post again, i didn't know they were made from real Bronze! I thought they were resin made to look like bronze.  :huh:

Oh well mine are cheap resin, lol.  8:)

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: antiquerose123 on April 19, 2010, 05:46:41 AM

Bronze = a few $$$ doesn't it??

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Anne on April 19, 2010, 06:23:46 PM

Some is Rose, I can't recall what these were new... around ?40-50 I think.

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Tigerchips on April 20, 2010, 10:33:01 AM

Just got one of these in a charity shop i work for. It's a large Fox with a date of 1983 by Tom Mackie.  8)

I wasn't quite sure if it was 1983 or 1993? How long has this company been going?

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Tigerchips on April 20, 2010, 10:40:58 AM

Just found this....

http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/Collecting-Heredities-apos-Avalon-apos-Bronze-Sculptures_W0QQugidZ10000000003609685

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Cold Cast Bronze: This is a method of mixing bronze dust with special resins to produce the finished artwork.

Well i never knew that.  8)

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: antiquerose123 on April 21, 2010, 10:40:22 AM

I want to find one bronze thing here - for pennies, and be worth $$$$.  Still looking....................................might be a while for me.  lol

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Anne on April 25, 2010, 10:50:32 PM

Quote from: Tigerchips on April 20, 2010, 10:33:01 AM

Just got one of these in a charity shop i work for. It's a large Fox with a date of 1983 by Tom  Mackie.  8)

I wasn't quite sure if it was 1983 or 1993? How long has this company been going?

Not sure TC, mine weas bought when my son was little and there were a lot of them on sale in galleries at that time (mid-late 1980s). They were certainly around in the 1970s as well but I can't find a start date for them (yet!)

Title: Re: Heredities of Kirkby Stephen
Post by: Tigerchips on April 26, 2010, 12:46:48 PM

Not to worry, i'm guessing it's not a common one as i can't find any the same anywhere.