Description
STORE NOTICE: These are a USA Anglotopia Exclusive and are being made just for us. We are only getting five units, so we urge you to reserve soon, so you don’t miss out!
A beautiful new product from Modern Souvenir Company in Bath, England, a gilded bronze Churchill Bust! This is the perfect gift for the discerning Churchillian in your life!
Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his lifetime body of work. In 1963, he was the first of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. In his Speech to the House of Commons on May 13th, 1940, he uttered the immortal words – “…we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be…we shall never surrender.” Bust is a hand-made plaster bust gilded in bronze. Created in Bath, England, by the Modern Souvenir Company.
The Bust
Churchill is one of the most photographed, sculpted, painted, and drawn figures in modern history. This original sculpture drew on this history and was made at their workshop in Bath. Gilded in bronze.
Around the Base
For this bust, they have included objects around the base of things reminiscent of World War II, including a gas mask, military hat, a soldier’s helmet, Spitfire, Churchill’s bowler hat, a Hurricane, and a trowel.
The etch around the base reads – “WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER”
Height 12cm (about six inches)
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