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Essex Motors Hood Ornament 1930's

Essex Motors Hood Ornament 1930's

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During the early 1930s, Avard T. Fairbanks, Professor of Sculpture at the University of Michigan was called on by a variety of automobile manufacturers to make hood ornaments. 

One of the earliest was a Griffen for the Essen Terraplane, later to become the Hudson Automobile Company.  The Essex Terraplane had a powerful straight-8 engine and was noted for winning the “Pikes Peak Automobile Competition.”
 
 
Copies of these radiator ornaments cast in bronze and chrome plated are made available for purchase.

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    Salt Lake City, UT
    801-268-8839
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    Accurate reproductions of original sculptures by Avard T. Fairbanks, Ph.D., sculptor, are made available through New Dedham Art.  All rights to the artwork offered are held by Grant R. Fairbanks, M.D., founder of New Dedham Art.  Although there are some artworks immediately available, most will have to undergo the reproduction process which can take time – more for sculpture, less in the case of paintings.

     

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    1. Painting Reproduction (Giclee - Color Copy on Canvas) - Two Weeks Required, sometimes less time

    2. Sculpture Reproduction in Bronze – 6 Months Required, sometimes less/more

    3. Sculpture Reproduction in Cast Stone – 2 Months Required 

    4. Sculpture Reproduction in carved Carrara Marble in Italy – One Year minimum required, sometimes more time required.

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