Yes! I think WOLFERMAN is it! Doesn't turn up a single hit from the Sheffield Indexers --not baptisms, burials, census or work -- but considering the trademarks used in the time period, that doesn't mean much. I find myself saying this a bunch lately, but maybe a London outfit?
As to the casting, my intent is to create a proper metal mold that I can use to make more pressed horn scales.
I've had a nasty respiratory bug for the last two weeks and it's really slowed me down, but I should be able to start seriously getting stuff done again soon (like magnafluxing the Regent Street razor, but I'm now pretty sure that's going to be Kens Lewis). Living close to the vasty churning machinery of the special effects industry should mean I've got good resources for mold-making close to hand, and I know some folks in the industry.
The more I think about it, there would be some really solid advantages to getting a very high res laser scan done. For one, I could then digitally sculpt back in the one or two small areas where detail has been lost. I might even be able to correct for generation loss that way... Then it'd just be a matter of getting it printed in metal at a sufficiently high spatial resolution. I know that that 0.1mm accuracy is possible from some of the polymer processes, but I'm unclear if the metal casting printers are equally fine. I'd rather scan, sculpt and print a useful mold than scan, sculpt, print, cast, then pour a mold.