3D In Relief Retriever Portrait in Copper - Signed/Dated 1959

I found this at a thrift store yesterday. I believe it's copper & a portrait of a retriever?
I believe it's copper, but is this "hand hammered"?
It's signed & dated 1959 so it has age - but is it good art (I think so - I couldn't do it!) or is it just a school art project or something similar?
Does it have any value?
Thanks!

 

Journey, sellers seem to be calling all of these 1950's era... I wonder if there were kits that allowed you to make them at home?


https://www.etsy.com/listing/118211785/horse-head-hammered-copper-metal-framed?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=1950's+copper+art&ref=sr_gallery-1-22&referring_page_type=market



https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Vintage-195...og-Wall-Art-/143256784970?hash=item215ac5104a

 

Just for your information: not a retriever breed. the low-slung ears would point towards a setter breed.

 

Could have been done in art class. My generation was still doing same.

Debora

 

Definitely being done as a kit in the late sixties/early seventies.

 

Looks like a spaniel.

 

Hello,

How do you post those pics? every time I try it says file to large....any help would be apricated

Wolf

 

We made similar in shop class in the early 70's.

 

Pictures need to be under 1 mb. if you use your phone for pics, if you eMail them to yourself it gives you a size option, so you can resize your pics to a proper size. Then when you upload them to a thread, choose he full image option.

 

Could be shop class; but in the 50s, early 60s, there were kits which were quite popular. They contained a thin copper sheet, a wooden stylus, and most importantly, a plastic backing sheet with the design. You just pressed the copper into the plastic, framed it, and had an "original" work of art. Most were framed with the plastic backing for reinforcement, so if the frame were removed, the backing plastic would still be present.
I suspect most copper art found today, from that era, was made from one of those kits, not done free-hand.

 

If on a computer just right click on pic & then click resize - then click a smaller size!

 

If you are using a phone, email them to yourself as medium. Save them and post from there.

 

These were done by a variety of people, both talented and amateurish.
Kits were definitely available.
I remember doing a small one in 6th or 7th grade art class - 1960s.
It was still part of the cub scout craft book in the early 90s.

 

Agree.

 

I wholeheartedly agree with Clutteredcloset's "agreement" that it is a setter breed.

The "sweetest" and most congenial (with people, other dogs, as well as other creatures/critters) dog we ever had was an English Setter.

Oh what an absolute "gentleman" of a dog he was.

 

I seem to recall (sort of? ... I think...) that my kit came with a bright blue plastic mold that you filled with plaster-of-paris... when set, remove mold, lay copper sheet on top, emboss away.

However, we did a lot of crafts when I was a kid, and I'm certainly old enough to be confabulating.

 

I'll second THAT, too, YourTurn! I've had a wonderful collection of Irish, English and Gordon setters over the years, and this one was the best behaved gentleman of them all:


(and, yes, he ALWAYS sat in a chair!)

 

Hi Journey!! In all my years on computers with all the versions of Windows (MINUS Win-10.....not there yet!!!!) I have NEVER been able to 'just right click on an image and select re-size'!!!! Would that it were that easy!!!! Maybe it is for many others!!!! And maybe it is on Apple (don't have one of them either!!!!)

 

Same here, Aqui! (And you can include Windows 10, too - that's what I'm on...)

 

SBSVC, oh my goodness, your photo brought a mist to my eyes even after all the years since our sweet boy passed away.