Hello there. I've been collecting bronzes by a company called Heredities for a while now, and thought that if you had seen one of these fine peices, and had considered perhaps starting a collection of your own, this brief guide might be of some use.
Heredities were a company based at Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria, the Lake District, and for many years produced limited edition fine art sculptures in cold cast bronze. This is a method of mixing bronze dust with special resins to produce the finished artwork. It retains the weight and feel of a metal, but requires no firing, and is able to attain far more detail than the older method. Unfortunately the Heredities company was liquidated in 2003, and although the name and some of the designs were taken on by Genesis, an Irish competitor, many of the earlier designs and some of the unique style has been lost in the transition. Genesis do still make some of the same figures, and have added new ones to the range, but where as Heredities were to my mind very much in the style of 'Vallejo' paintings, the recent new peices from Ireland have been slightly more modest in their appearance. In other words, where as Heredities wereadept ata use of nudity in some of their series, including the Avalon series, the new company has not yet really followed the same path.
My collection has centered on the Avalon series in the main. This is based upon the legends and tales of King Arthur, and depicts many of the well known characters. There is an expensive look and feel to the pieces, and many even today are not far short of their origional prices, and even on eBay, can come up fairly rarely. Below is a list of the origional Heredities Avalon pieces, and item numbers...
Sir Mordred AE007
Lancelot
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