Dan said: "Just cannot get a trophy made like this these days for a decent price."
Quite literally true, Can. We run a trophy shop -- and we have to look way farther than ever to find parts to make "old fashioned" trophies. These days everything is shiny plastic cups and towers and figures made in a county that shall remain nameless but its initials are China. No metal stuff that I know of. Maybe the "top end" places know if the real brass is available - but I sure don't.