Vintage Hand Made Gregori Solid Copper Long Leaf Dish with Curled Leaf Tip

Here on offer is a great example of a vintage solid copper hand hammered dish in the shape of a long leaf with a curled leaf tip.

It was made by the famous Gregori Copper Company, USA.

This example is in excellent undamaged condition by has lost most of its original lacquer finish and the solid copper has a great aged patina to its finish.

On the base its still retains part of its original label that reads: SOLID COPPER.

It is also engraved with a cursive handwriting script that says Gregorian Copper along with the number 300 that is the model number of this particular piece.


Here are some interesting facts about the maker.

P. R. Gregori and his brother Fred started Gregori Copper in 1946 in Southern California. The newly formed Gregori Copper Company began modestly in the garage of the Gregori brothers' parent's home in Capistrano Beach. In two short years, they were able to move into their permanent facility in San Clemente. Soon, Gregori Copper was shipping copper items all over the U.S. and to Latin America.

P. R. Gregori, the artist/founder of the company, was educated at the Butler Art Institute in Youngstown, Ohio. After WW II, he received hands-on experience at Craftsman Studios in Laguna Beach, California, an artistic commune in the 1920s that evolved into a facility that produced a wealth of copper products in the Arts and Crafts style. This experience inspired Gregori and his brother Fred to start Gregori Copper.
While Fred Gregori handled sales, P.R. Gregori not only ran the manufacturing site but was also the artist behind the copper works. He designed all of the copper products and even made his own tools and dyes. Using large sheets of copper in various gauges, Gregori fashioned utilitarian but extremely beautiful items using hand tools and even a spinning lathe.
Each object was hand-beaten and finished with an acid bath. Gregori developed a special bluing process that gave each piece a depth of colour, and then he hand-rubbed them with steel wool, creating either a solid copper finish or a satin finish. To ensure that the copper would retain its colour, it was lacquered with a gun sprayer and then baked for 40 minutes.
At the height of Gregori Copper's business, it employed 25 people and garnered annual sales of half a million dollars. In 1968, the company was sold to Sunbell, and the copper works was eventually moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and continued to produce beaten copper products well into the 80s.

P.R. Gregori and his wife moved to New Mexico but soon returned to California, where P.R. opened a dining establishment, Papa Pio's Italian Restaurant, in Dana Point. Sunbelt sold the company twenty years ago to a firm in Lemmon, South Dakota, that became Gregorian Inc. This company now produces giftware using various metals and resins, including delicate jewelry made with copper, but nothing like the classic Gregorian Copper pieces that the Gregori brothers made.

The dish measures 9.6” (24.5cm) long by 5.9” (15cm) wide and weighs 200g.

Please see my pictures for the details of the condition, which complement this description.

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