A. Silvestri Co (USA)

 

The Silvestri family has been in the statuary business for five generations.

 

Arcangelo Silvestri along with his two brothers and a brother-in-law, settled in San Francisco in 1900. They began to manufacture ornamental mouldings and figurines out of plaster which they peddled from door to door. They worked long and hard to make their business successful. The business prospered until the Great Depression when they returned to their native village of Bagni di Lucca in the province of Tuscany, Italy.

In 1956 Arcangelo’s son, Adorno, and grandson, Alfeo Luigi Silvestri, emigrated to the United States and settled in San Francisco where they founded A. Silvestri Company Fine Statuary.

 

A. Luigi Silvestri and his family have continued the traditional family heritage of statue manufacturing by still making the finest quality gnomes together with other quality garden ornaments, all  beautifully finished in cast stone.

 

     All  24" tall and weigh 39 lbs each (2004/5 Models)