tiny bronze tennis racquet for tiffany statue

Tiny bronze tennis racquet for tiffany statue

This tiny bronze looking tennis racquet was manufactured by us for a Tiffany statue.
An elderly man came to see us with this small bronze Tiffany statue.
It was missing the small tennis racquet that it had originally,
He told us that he wanted to pass it onto his daughter as a gift. His daughter used to play with the statue when she was a very young. the tennis racquet was never fixed permanently in the hand of the statue, it was removable and due to this it got lost when being played with…

We were given some details of an approximate age of the statue and we set about looking up historical references of the rough era trying to find pictures of what the original tennis racquet would look like. We were looking at using actual photos of people playing tennis around the same era of the statue.
We found some images of what we believed to be the right style and showed them to our customer and he agreed they looked like the correct style of the original bronze tennis racquet.
We took proportional dimensions from the pictures so we could size it properly and we designed our version and machined the main racquet shape out of brass sheet, then made the strings with brass wire and silver brazed these in place.
The wires crossed over each other as the strings would of on a real tennis racquet.
we then aged the brass to match the bronze colors / look of the old statue.

Tiffany tennis statue bronze tennis racquet replacement

The replacement tennis racquet fit into the hand of the statue exactly how the original one would of.
Our customer was very pleased with the outcome.

tiffany tennis figurine tennis racquet replacement

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