I purchased this circa 1895 stunning 15″ x 15″ copper cornice lion this week, it arrived today in fact. It came from a NYC building demolished in the 1980s, probably a building that would likely have been 7-12 stories in height given the size of the lion. There’s not a whole of of copper cornices in the city, painted hot zinc dipped sheet metal was the most commonly used. Copper was used on more expensive buildings- hotels, municipal/city buildings, schools etc. usually the copper gets scrapped if the building is abandoend any length of time or demolished, so plenty of these fine examples of American 19th century die-pressed copper cornices…