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Message:: [QUOTE="mirana, post: 9548236, member: 79705"]Was at a local auction for other things but this piece spoke to me so I picked it up for $5. I thought it was resin at the time and completely missed the artist's mark. I looked for ages and couldn't find him. Yesterday I picked it up and distinctly heard metal, so off I went again. Was about to post for help when I photographed the mark in just the right way and tried a new search. Finally found him! "Boy Reading" by noted English artist Karin Jonzen, a limited edition cold cast bronze on resin. I had thought he seemed 1970s to me, and turns out that's exactly his date. [ATTACH=full]455104[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]455105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]455106[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]455107[/ATTACH] "This piece is one of a small series of limited edition sculptures Jonzen produced for Heredities. In her book she writes; 'About this time I started receiving a substantial source of income through royalties received from the firm of Heredities. This company was especially set up to publish editions of small sculptures with a new technique of cold casting, which gives perfect technical results, but which is far less costly than conventional methods. With this security, which I hadn't had for years, I was able to save enough for a 'one man exhibition' which took place at the Fieldborne Gallery in 1974.'"[/QUOTE]