Statuettes are ceramic

Interesting fact:

Popular statuette "Oscar" has earned its credibility, but it was made? One casting factory in Chicago, received an important order from Los Angeles: cast figurines knight. Height figurines - 34 cm, diameter podium - 13 cm, weight - 3.85 kg. What happens in the process of manufacture of figurines? The molten mixture of tin and lead is poured into a special form, followed by processing and polishing. Sometimes figurines broken during grinding and had to return to the facility. Next to each figure a layer of copper, nickel and silver, and the Oscar statuette layer of 24-carat gold. So were made of metal statuette "Oscar."