Beautiful little conversation piece, and appears well made. As other reviews have mentioned, the colour is not quite as shining gold as the promotional pics appear, (the tone is more muted, slightly closer to a brass then gold), but still very nice. Piece looks fantastic from a distance, and still looks great close up, though perhaps a little more "toy" like upon close inspection. Happy with purchase, however in part because I purchased while on sale, I am not sure I would have felt the value lived up to the original list pricing.