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been to this station 3 times in the past 3yrs..very cool station and someone is trying to restore it,not sure if its a private or the city..eagle is still there ..I always stop there when returning from our engine show in Ottawa Ks.
Alan

Here's the pic from Bob's link.

When researching my eagle I contacted this restoration project and they tell me that the eagle in this photo is a concrete replacement. Not the original. The original eagle at this station was cast iron.

Your still fishing w/ decription;

WHERE on the Chrysler Building is there Similar EAGLES?

once I get it polished it will greatly resemble the eagle heads on the chrysler building. Ebay works by keywords. In a few weeks/months I will be changing the description to something else to reach a completely different crowd. Made after the company closed, this is no longer a piece WEGas memorabilia.

NOT EVEN CLOSE to resemble Chrysler Building Eagles.

SNIPE HUNTING/SUCKER FISHING.

Poor excuse.

Dick, what's up with you!? You need to give this a rest. Horribly judgmental. Buyers on ebay are adults completely capable of making their own comparisons & decisions.

These statues were stock industrial age art for gardens & architectural building projects. WEGas just happened to choose this mold but its not theirs alone, other (mostly none petro) people used them too.

I contacted an aluminum metal polisher today for an estimate and I'm guessing in a month or so I'll have a whole new product (not a white eagle) here to sell. Once I get it back polished I will post a side by side with the Chrysler eagle head for comparison.

Here is a side and beak shot of the original cast iron eagle

So we've now gone from it being used as a scarecrow, or placed atop a barn or silo... to now being a compared to the Chrysler building eagles?... a "New York" apartment show-stopper!... LOL

Why not plate it in gold and claim it to be a tribute to King Tut?... did I just give you an idea?

Keep posting here, jfaycook. You are... well... let's say... very entertaining.

that's the idea!

I heard back from the folks making the aluminum Mexican eagles. They are a NEW product. It appears to be the WEGas mold but a smaller version, about 3" shorter. The company is not trying to recreate a "vintage" item and the statues are easily identifiable as brand new. They were aware that the antique aluminum eagle existed. The quality of the antique aluminum statues is far superior to the Mexican version which leads me to believe they were American made. Welded aluminum, 1940s? military?

"Easily identifiable as brand new"... are they wearing a sombrero?

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