The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Cire-Perdue Process

A method of producing statuary, etc., by modelling a wax figure on a prepared core, inclosing the wax with suitable composition, drying the mould and melting out the wax, and finally filling the space with metal. See STATUARY-FOUNDING.

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