LEAF TRAYS 14" &11" CALLA LILY OSKAR J.W. HANSEN BRASS - $75 in Toronto, Ontario for sale

Vintage brass, leaf shaped tray, 3-30, copyright 1948, trademark VMC, heavy thick brass, 3 5/8 inches long, excellent, condition.
Virginia metalcrafters, Brass 14 inch calla lily tray. Metal art, it is copyrighted on the base and it looks like 1946 or 1948. No gouged nice condition.

ABOUT VIRGINIA METAL CRAFTERS. ESTABLISHED IN THE 1890S making stoves etc. Moving into waffle irons and frying pans through the beginning of the century, eventually making the highpoint oven, they moved into brass.
In 1938, the company installed equipment for melting brass and other non-ferrous metals and began to market products under the name Virginia Metalcrafters.

Although World War II halted the casting of brass products, immediately after the war, Clemmer continued developing the gift line. In 1946 he met and retained the services of artist Calvin Roy Kinstler and commissioned him to do a carving of the great horse Citation. Kinstler completed his work in 1949, shortly after Citation had won the Triple Crown. That carving, along with other pieces carved by Kinstler are still actively sold by the company.
Similarly, Clemmer worked with an internationally known sculptor, Oskar Hansen, whose works included the huge angels seen today at either end of the Hoover Dam. Hansen settled in Nelson County, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains and carved may patterns for Captain Dick, among them, dozens of leaf shapes. Modeled directly from nature, these leaves range in size from 3 inches to 40 inches and many were actively sold until 2005.
Asking $75 for the small one and $125 for the large one.