Someone bent the mascot up so it stands up more than is leaping forward, but otherwise is in pretty good condition.
It’s an original vintage part from the 1920s (not a reproduction).
I might try to
bend it back down but would be afraid of breaking it!
The guy I bought
it from told the following story & I believe him:
- Bought it about 70 years ago when he was pretty young,
from a local junk yard
- Paid $75 for it back then (that was a lot of money back
then)
- Paid $5/month until he could pay it off
- Intended to put it on a car but never did
- Has cancer now and is getting rid of “stuff”
At some point in
the early 1930s, Lincoln stopped using the greyhound mascot and started using a
coat-of-arms type of badge.
Ford, actually
started using a similar greyhound mascot on some of the Ford cars in the mid
1930s, which makes it a bit confusing if you’re looking at a Lincoln mascot or
a Ford one.
The Lincoln
mascot was supposedly produced using the “lost wax” casting method and is cast
out of brass (the Rolls Royce “spirit of ecstacy” is supposedly made the same
way). It's a labor intensive process sometimes used in making fine art bronze sculptures.
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