Fallen Soldier by Richard Rist
Large Art Company is operated by Richard Rist. He is a fraud and ripped us off and he disrespected the memory of our son. He sold us a piece of art that he claimed was manufactured in the U.S. And when we received the bronze it had a sticker on the bottom of it that said it was made in Mexico.
We overlooked this and installed this on our sons grave site to commemorate him.
We were told that this piece would last for a lifetime. Within six months of installing the piece it started falling apart we tried to contact the Large Art Company and they would not reply to our emails or answer our phone calls.
We started investigating and met up with two people, Impala Lechner and Jane DeDecker. Thru there web site we were informed that Large Art had been ripping off their copyrighted works and selling them. And we also found out that he was casting all of his bronzes in Mexico. Impala Lechner was recently visiting a foundry in Mexico that rips her pieces off and having them remove her pieces and this is when she discovered at least a half dozen of the Fallen Soldier Memorial bronze sitting in the foundry be packaged to ship out.
She said they do not use real bronze and the alloy is of such poor quality, that it breaks or it will decay quickly. Mostly they use lead in their bronze alloy, besides melted down Coca Cola cans. Our son's memory has been greatly disrespected by a poor quality piece of work made in Mexico and we were misled to believe that we were buying an American made product to remember our son who died in Iraq.
We also found out that he is also representing other American artists such as William F Duffy and telling people that these pieces are made in America when they are in fact made in Mexico and made of very poor quality materials such as melted down tin cans mixed with copper.
We paid over $6000 for a piece of junk metal with no satisfaction given by Large Art Company or Richard Rist. We had to come up with another bronze to put in its place immediately in October we found this exact piece being sold by BigBronze.com for $1200 the owner Darren informed us upfront that it was made overseas, but that they use good quality materials and at this point we had no choice but to try this piece. So far it has been holding up great and we have had no problems.
We are still disappointed that our son's memory was not commemorated by an American made piece of art. The Fallen Heroes Memorial has been sold to many people all over the U.S. And it makes us very sad to think of all the people that think they are buying a good quality American made piece of art to commemorate the memory of their loved ones.
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