| Weather vanes or wind vanes are made of various | | | | weather vanes are available in several designs |
| materials ranging from wrought iron, to copper, to | | | | including roosters, ospreys, eagles, attack eagles, |
| bronze, and more. Copper is the most commonly used | | | | ascending geese, landing ducks, feathered geese, blue |
| material because of its practicality as well as its nice | | | | herons, three geese in flight, pelicans, peace doves, |
| appearance. Copper weather vanes are very durable | | | | pheasants, quail, cows, horses, bulls, foxes, whimsical |
| and easy to maintain for a long time. They are mostly | | | | pigs, golden retrievers, lab retrievers, cats and mice, |
| made of solid copper, but they may also be plated | | | | deer, moose, elks, dolphins, whales, bass, sailfish, |
| with copper, which is more often the case for desktop | | | | schooners, yawls, sailboats, sloops, mermaids, |
| copper weather vanes. The direction indicators are | | | | lighthouses, country doctors, angels, pineapples, pine |
| made of brass with copper spacer balls. Copper | | | | trees, locomotives, planes, biplanes, low wing planes, |
| weather vanes are available in copper, bronze and | | | | moons, suns, stars, arrows, banners, flags, golfers, |
| antique finishes.Copper weather vanes are mounted | | | | firemen, lamplighters, handsaws, and many more. |
| on steel rods and have an adjustable mount roof | | | | Copper weather vanes are suitable for any kind of a |
| bracket. Desktop copper vanes, on the other hand, | | | | location, be it a farmhouse, church, residential house or |
| have a brass mounting rod with a solid brass base. | | | | corporate building. Different finishes can add class. |
| Copper weather vanes are created by hammering | | | | Antique copper weather vanes are very valuable. |
| copper into cast iron moulds. Then the pieces are | | | | New weather vanes are now made to look like old |
| trimmed by hand and soldered into the final figure. | | | | ones in order to increase their value. Copper weather |
| Parts of the vane are made separately and then | | | | vanes can also be specially designed according to |
| joined together, and some of the more intricate parts | | | | customer’s desires. Nowadays, weather vanes are |
| are cast in bronze. Making intricate copper weather | | | | rust free and maintenance free. |
| vanes is still considered to be a folk art. Copper | | | | |