For Sale: Skyscraper sculpture of Transamerica Pyramid

[editor]

Now you can own your own skyscraper. Well, not really. It's a statue. It's a great conversation piece, and looks good on an office desk or a shelf at home.

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(It doesn't really lean -- that's a thing with the camea lens)

This was created by an artist who works at a foundry in Pennsylvania. In his spare time, he creates molds of these skyscrapers by hand, then takes them to work where they're turned into solid brass sculptures. Unfortunately, the process destroys the molds, so there are only five of each created before the mold is ruined. In short -- these are fairly unique.

Further, this is SOLID METAL. He told me it's brass, and I have no reason to doubt him, but I know nothing about metal other than that it's really quite heavy for its size.

This particular one is the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. It's just under five inches tall. On the four sides of the base it reads Transamerica/260 Meters/San Francisco/1972.

When the artist was still making these, they sold on his web site for about $150. I'm only asking $45, plus $8 shipping.