Gaspare-You are saying you can pour molten aluminum alloy into a rubber mold???????????.
I think what Tommy said about the "reject" thing is a very good possibility. this would answer many of the questions about these. Tommy did not mention that at the foundry they said that some of the production would be rejected for poor quality for various reasons. They also said the mold must be cleaned and prepared properly each time or slag would stick in it damaging the next one-this would account for the rough backs and the partial cone casting on some of these so called fakes. Consider--
This would answer the question about why there are so few around. Most rejects were probably melted up but some may have been taken home by workers.
It would also explain the rough backs-partial cone castings,bubbles, etc. and the lack of proper finishing. Rejects would not be finished.
It would also explain the number of different ones-rejects would occur in all the different places they were made.
This seems much more likely to me than multiple expensive molds. So -is there any real reason this could not be the case?
