Large Plaque.... any idea who it is?

Hi,
No. I meant to say that the backboard which attached to the plaque had room at the bottom for the ID of the bronze piece. The board which was probably 6" higher and wider than the plaque had four holes in the corners to mount the plaque and the board to the wall.
greg

 

From your drawing, it seems that there would be eight holes in the plaque. This one has four.

 

So since my last post I've still been emailing and researching. I've had people who thought it might be the pilot Chuck Yeager. I contacted General Yeager directly and he said it's not him.

The Henry Ford research team said it's not Henry Ford.

Hank Williams Sr was mentioned, but even to my untrained eye it doesn't look like him...

 

LOng shot -- Wilbur Wright??

 

On Feb 28, 2017 I'd already said that I'd contacted two Wright Brothers organizations.

Wilbur was bald.

 

Artistic license,ever heard of it?

 

Putting hair on a historic figure is, in my opinion, is a bit more than artistic license.

Hmmm.... I've been thinking....

Let me rephrase that. Adding hair onto a historical figure might be artistic license. However, when you're talking about a thirty eight pound bronze plaque, that just doesn't make sense.

The people at wright-brothers.org don't think it's him.

 

Someone suggested that it might be Louis L'Amour.

The folks at http://www.louislamour.com don't think so.

 

Somebody rural, folksy, a daydreamer... possibly a poet or artist. His look in the depiction is early 20th century. I thought of Will Rogers. He died in a plane crash in 1935, and he was certainly folksy. But comparing photos, there are too many differences in his profile, I think...

https://www.google.com/search?q=wil...lMzSAhVHyoMKHcZSD-AQ_AUICCgB&biw=1680&bih=955

 

Actually, my mother-in-law said, just the other day, 'who was that guy that we used to collect money for before the movie started for charity?' because it made her think of him. It took some time, but we figured out it was Will Rogers, and then, too, decided it wasn't him.

We may never know who it is.

 

It looks like Bill Nye, the Science Guy to me. lol

(Now I've got that #$%^ theme song running through my head.)

 

In my original post I had said that I emailed Bill Nye.

 

Just because I keep coming back to look at this everytime someone posts a thought but have not given my own (yet) here's what I "see." A "visionary" type person laying in grass land, with a mountain in the midground (that looks rather like Mt. Rainier to me, but that's probably my Seattle location talking ) watching a seagull glide through the air. Early 20th century bowtie.

Since you've eliminated the Wrights (and the topography in the scene does not lend itself to either Ohio or North Carolina, anyway) what other flight pioneers are there to investigate?

 

That's pretty much what I see. A guy laying in a field of tall grass, with his sleeves rolled up, his pants cuffed, barefoot, looking up at the sky and smiling. It could be a bird in the sky, or not. I agree with the modernish bowtie.