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<p>[QUOTE="Houseful, post: 2488188, member: 1067"]Most real bronzes are patinated as they come out of the mould looking like bright new pennies, so often are darkened with liver of sulphur to give the usual dark brown patination like the other one you found. The one you are looking at could be real bronze with an applied patination to give these colours. Think Bergmann cold painted bronzes. The best thing to do is handle it. If it’s cold it’s bronze metal, and sounds like metal if you gently tap it, if its room temperature and perhaps has small blown holes then likely bronze resin.</p><p>I would ask the seller if you can if it’s foundry cast bronze if you can’t handle it in person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Houseful, post: 2488188, member: 1067"]Most real bronzes are patinated as they come out of the mould looking like bright new pennies, so often are darkened with liver of sulphur to give the usual dark brown patination like the other one you found. The one you are looking at could be real bronze with an applied patination to give these colours. Think Bergmann cold painted bronzes. The best thing to do is handle it. If it’s cold it’s bronze metal, and sounds like metal if you gently tap it, if its room temperature and perhaps has small blown holes then likely bronze resin. I would ask the seller if you can if it’s foundry cast bronze if you can’t handle it in person.[/QUOTE]
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