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...After the wax is melted from the mold, the latter must be cleaned out with hot mercury (another Lenz secret) leaving the interior razor sharp...
Basis of the Lenz Process is the ancient art of tire perdue (a refinement of the secret process of Benvenuto Cellini). A figure is modeled in wax, which is in turn enclosed in a mold. Heat melts the wax out, and metal is poured into the aperture. Available for the first time last week were many of Alfred Lenz's secret refinements...
...Molds for casting are placed in a metallic boxlike vise called a flask, to keep it in shape as the metal is poured in. To overcome the problem of the metals shrinking in cooling, Sculptor Lenz invented a flexible flask made of an elastic composition which contracts with the metal...
...Alfred David Lenz created a sensation among metallurgists. He showed roses, bits of cabbage leaves, delicate orchids, the spiny heads of Queen Anne's lace, in which every tiny vein was preserved in solid bronze, cast from the objects themselves. Later he exhibited a series of statuets, most of them not over 8 in. high including their bases, which were cast not in one but in four or five metals at the same time...
...brother Hugh has described Sculptor Lenz as a man who hated capitalism, bullfights and time clocks; liked butter, sleeping outdoors, violets and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Particularly since the War, the ideals of modern art are diametrically opposed to the little nymphs of Alfred Lenz with their fluttering draperies. All artists respect the knowledge and dexterity that went into their manufacture, look forward to exciting developments that general knowledge of the Lenz process will bring...