We recently had the opportunity to refinish a number of sports trophies from St. Viator, a nearby Catholic school. There is some serious history in these, with the oldest dating back to the 1920s and the newest of the bunch coming from the 1950s. They are mostly for baseball and softball, but don’t think St. Viator is a one sport school! There is a swimming trophy in there too. As you can see from the ‘before’ image above, these trophies were definitely showing some of their

Don’t let our company name fool you. Here at Progressive Bronze, we deal with brass, aluminum, and in this case, chrome! Recently a local customer found us on yelp, while looking for someone to refinish a set of door handles. While we were working on those with him, he asked if we also dealt in re-plating chrome bathroom hardware to which we replied, “Of course!” Our customer showed up the next day with a cardboard box full of chrome-plated early 20th century bathroom hardwar