Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-01-25
THE TRADE IN PLASTER CASTS.
Demand Where Most OF the Or
dPr~ Come from.
New York SUM

New York Sum
The trade in plaster casts sail Il manu-
facturrr, used to I've mostly confined la
cheap images, which wcr. carried
around upon a board and Is4l'irl from door
I" door To-day it is a quite different
matter. Some catalogues contain from one
Ia five hundred figures many of them being
taken from the finest works of tulpture.
You can buy in New York to-day good casts
of almost any Of the carved master pieces III
European galleries. Vet only II few years
age teachers found ii difficult Ia get thu. few
works necessary for class instrIctp IN
wv hirh are the most popular OF the larger
works. Well, for fisur"-,lrdwin:s the Meiccan
Venus and the DsrnboljIs, or Quot thrower.
In simple bliSts the Aiiadnc and Clytlr are
favorit's. Ma.iu,., Of the Jupiter Of Ph,lias
and Of the various heals If grls and god
'l''ss''s are always III demand. The schools
also buy wagon s.:i,ls of old plaster feet,
hands and limbs. or other parts of the human
frame, in all imaginable positions. My list
includes over 900 casts of all kinds Most
of the great antique ti,ur~or torsos furnish
in three sizes, and all schools can afford to
have the smaller ones.
1.-THE most popular things in my line for
ihi siiNN al buStN shi't
Byron and Burns are most largely call,.i for,
and, in antiques, -i;,chylus, ArstopllancS and
DcmoSthencs. Country libraries send for
plaster heals of modern poets and philoso
piers. The trade in biiStS Of modern states
men has fallen oil somewhat. My Grant
molds are by no means overwork,si just now
Of recent writer's Dickens sells best; of mI
ern generals, Napoleon. Debating clubs
run Ia Ciceros, We'ntcrs and Clays, AMI
medical societies To 1Es'lnlapius and Hippo
crates but Galen has fallen Oft badly. For
Railways, brsts of the Caesars are in vogue
Country social clubs want busts Of Raphael,
Michael Angelo, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope,
and Dryden Here is an order from literary
club whose secretary wants -four good, cclc-
brated literary busts, large size, ut lowest
figures And there's an order from fat
mems club. They want IA good cast, not less
than three feet high, of the Three Gracs, for
ccntretable Fauns and I1acchlls,s also go
well among the social clubs Political clubs
take to busts Of Jefferson of late. wash
ington always sells wcll-on horseback or
oif-and 50 dos jackson. The German clubs,
delight in busts Of the great musicians
''The most popular casts among cultivated
menu Well, in busts should say the Young
Augustus has the call. Among the Venuscs
that Of Mclos is lest liked We sell very
large number of these. They bring from
$50 to S75, according to size. Some people
Of taste prefer the Psyche Of the Naples mu-
scum In the way of male beauty notice n
great change in taste. Cultivated people
used to prefer the Apollo to the Antinous.
To-day sell dozen figures Of the latter to
one of the former. The Mercury Of John Of
Bologna is very popular with almost all
Americans who care for statues They like
its grace and its action. The Fighting Gladi-
ator and Michael Angeles Wrestlers also sell
well nowadays. have sold more of them
in the past two years than in the previous
ten yeas or late l have sold many ex-
qusite casts from the friezes Of the vatican.
They are largely used for interior decorative
purposes.