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ARTS & CRAFTS
Here is a pair of bookends which clearly were made by a metal workshop in Arts and Crafts style. Sheet copper was cut to size and the bookend front cut into shape, stamped with an emblem at the top, bent into an L shape, made convex to the front and stamped with a shop mark. NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN The bookends are large, height 9 inches, width 7 inches, depth 3.5 inches. One knee rests on a mound, and the shop mark of the Weidlich Brothers foundry, WB within the outline of a shield, is cast on backside of the mound. These bookends are very handsome because the Indians and mounds are silver plated. BLENKO GLASS BOOKENDS As mid-century modern design becomes ever more popular, BLENKO glass bookends are popping up frequently in antique shops. BLENKO items are well known to glass collectors, as expressed in this Modernism Magazine article, but have not received much attention from bookend collectors. Here we have two representative pairs of BLENKO bookends,both of them solid
WILDER | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR This bookend figure is a child, but It has the hairy hoofed legs of a goat, tall pointed ears, a small tail, the beginnings of horns on its forehead and it is playing two flutes. BOOKENDS BY MCCLELLAND BARCLAY McClelland Barclay (1891-1943) was one of the best known and successful American artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in St. Louis, he was a student of H.C. Ives, George Bridgman and Thomas Fogarty. Barclay was a painter, an illustrator, a sculptor and a jewelry designer. His illustrations appeared on thecovers
JENNINGS BROTHERS
However, Gerald P. McBride in “A Collector’s Guide to Cast Metal Bookend (1997)” called these Armor Bronzes “Puritan”. Pilgrim: Electroform bronze. Height 10.5 inches. Circa 1918. Markings: Signed by the sculptor Ruhl (John Ruhl, 1873-1940) Armor Bronze shopmark and label. In March of 2015 we posted Colonial decor bookends by ChaseInc.
FRANKART NUDE & FROG BOOKENDS Frankart Inc. was a New York City foundry established by the artist, Arthur von Frankenberg, in the early nineteen twenties. Frankart Inc. produced bookends, ashtrays, lamps, and other metal household accessories. Many of the items featured streamlined, sylph-like female nudes designed by von Frankenberg which were very well received, possibly because they contrasted with classicalARMOR BRONZE
The J B Hirsch Foundry, established in 1907 and active until recently, gave us bookends with celluloid parts. Celluloid parts mimicked the ivory parts that were used in high-end sculptures. and lent panache to bookends. Celluloid, also referred to as Ivorine, is often denigrated now because it lacks the qualities of ivory, but all plastics were new and desirable in the early thirties. INDIAN SCOUT BOOKENDS Here is an Indian, holding a bow and bowstring, shading his eyes and peering into the distance. He stands on a metal base which is painted to look like black marble. The bookends are large, height 9 inches, width 7 inches, depth 3.5 inches. One knee rests on a mound, and theshop mark of
THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR The Bookend Collector is dedicated to documentation, elucidation, and divination of bookends and their place in art, home decor, and libraries. Please enjoy browsing the site. If you are not a bookend collector now, you may be one soon. BOOKENDS: OBJECTS OF ART AND FASHION, Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2012ARTS & CRAFTS
Here is a pair of bookends which clearly were made by a metal workshop in Arts and Crafts style. Sheet copper was cut to size and the bookend front cut into shape, stamped with an emblem at the top, bent into an L shape, made convex to the front and stamped with a shop mark. NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN The bookends are large, height 9 inches, width 7 inches, depth 3.5 inches. One knee rests on a mound, and the shop mark of the Weidlich Brothers foundry, WB within the outline of a shield, is cast on backside of the mound. These bookends are very handsome because the Indians and mounds are silver plated. BLENKO GLASS BOOKENDS As mid-century modern design becomes ever more popular, BLENKO glass bookends are popping up frequently in antique shops. BLENKO items are well known to glass collectors, as expressed in this Modernism Magazine article, but have not received much attention from bookend collectors. Here we have two representative pairs of BLENKO bookends,both of them solid
WILDER | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR This bookend figure is a child, but It has the hairy hoofed legs of a goat, tall pointed ears, a small tail, the beginnings of horns on its forehead and it is playing two flutes. BOOKENDS BY MCCLELLAND BARCLAY McClelland Barclay (1891-1943) was one of the best known and successful American artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in St. Louis, he was a student of H.C. Ives, George Bridgman and Thomas Fogarty. Barclay was a painter, an illustrator, a sculptor and a jewelry designer. His illustrations appeared on thecovers
JENNINGS BROTHERS
However, Gerald P. McBride in “A Collector’s Guide to Cast Metal Bookend (1997)” called these Armor Bronzes “Puritan”. Pilgrim: Electroform bronze. Height 10.5 inches. Circa 1918. Markings: Signed by the sculptor Ruhl (John Ruhl, 1873-1940) Armor Bronze shopmark and label. In March of 2015 we posted Colonial decor bookends by ChaseInc.
FRANKART NUDE & FROG BOOKENDS Frankart Inc. was a New York City foundry established by the artist, Arthur von Frankenberg, in the early nineteen twenties. Frankart Inc. produced bookends, ashtrays, lamps, and other metal household accessories. Many of the items featured streamlined, sylph-like female nudes designed by von Frankenberg which were very well received, possibly because they contrasted with classicalARMOR BRONZE
The J B Hirsch Foundry, established in 1907 and active until recently, gave us bookends with celluloid parts. Celluloid parts mimicked the ivory parts that were used in high-end sculptures. and lent panache to bookends. Celluloid, also referred to as Ivorine, is often denigrated now because it lacks the qualities of ivory, but all plastics were new and desirable in the early thirties. INDIAN SCOUT BOOKENDS Here is an Indian, holding a bow and bowstring, shading his eyes and peering into the distance. He stands on a metal base which is painted to look like black marble. The bookends are large, height 9 inches, width 7 inches, depth 3.5 inches. One knee rests on a mound, and theshop mark of
MID-CENTURY
Circa 1974. Free Form: Early Mid-Century objects were rounded forms, notable for the absence of angles, and referred to as Fifties Collectibles. These bookends were created by Ben Seibel, a successful sculptor with his own foundry. Free Form: 5.5 inches, gray metal. BenSeibel, Circa 1960.
MOVIES | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR When Pompeian Bronze Company copyrighted this Robinson Crusoe bookend design in 1930, the book, Robinson Crusoe, had excited the imagination and adventurist spirit of readers for more than 200 years. The 1719 edition’s full title was, entitled, The LIFE and Strange Surprizing ADVENTURES of ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York,.Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited MODERNIST | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR Mucha Maiden: Alphonse Mucha, a Czech artist, is closely associated with the art style of Art Nouveau. He is famous for posters which featured beautiful women with whiplash curls. This bookend woman’s appearance is dominated by curls and so reminds us of “Mucha” FOUNDRIES | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR Bookend Collector found a November, 1921 announcement In the THE MORNING NEWS (Wilmington, Delaware) regarding the funding of The S.C. Tarrant Co, Inc. Manufacture of lighting fixtures, lamps, etc. From these two pieces of information it can be surmised that the S. C. Tarrant Co. was in existence between 1921 and 1932. ART DECO | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR This cartoon version of the MGM (film studio) logo, Leo the Lion, is from 1993. The bookends depict the MGM GRAND Casino and Hotel entrance as it existed when the property opened on the Las Vegas Strip in 1993. It was made of bronzed fiberglass and was 6 stories high. The entrance was demolished and replaced in 1997. It is said that some of the gambling public considered it unlucky to enter a YE OLDE COPPER SHOPPE BOOKENDS This is a pair of Arts and Crafts style bookends from Ye Olde Copper Shoppe (1917-1922). In 1916 the metal smiths Fred Brosi and Hans Jauchen founded Ye Olde Copper Shop at 464 Sutter St in San Francisco. Sometime in 1917 Jauchen left, taking the name Jauchen's Olde CopperShop for
FRED BROSI BOOKENDS 1927 The 2 pairs of Bookends seen in this post are from this later period of Brosi’s work, 1927 -1933. The bookends are 5 inches tall and 5 inches wide. The shopmark is an arm and hammer with the words MADE BY HAND. Brosi is admired for his meticulous handwork on his metal pieces, and this pair of copper bookends, called Nouveau Flower is a FRANKART NUDE & FROG BOOKENDS Frankart Inc. was a New York City foundry established by the artist, Arthur von Frankenberg, in the early nineteen twenties. Frankart Inc. produced bookends, ashtrays, lamps, and other metal household accessories. Many of the items featured streamlined, sylph-like female nudes designed by von Frankenberg which were very well received, possibly because they contrasted with classical RARE TIFFANY & CO BOOKENDS Height 8.5 inches. Two impressed marks. One mark of three circles which may be a foundry mark. The other a mark used by Tiffany & Co. Tiffany & Co. bookends must be very rare. These are the only bookends we have ever seen with a Tiffany & Co. mark. Each bookend shows a seated lady with one hand on a world globe and the other on a stack ofbooks.
CONNECTICUT
LIchfield Cathedral was built during the thirteenth century and stands today as a premier example of Gothic architecture in England. It is the only medieval church in England with 3 spires. The two spires depicted on the bookends are about 200 feet high. A third and taller spire at the east end of the cathedral is not represented on thebookends.
THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR The Bookend Collector is dedicated to documentation, elucidation, and divination of bookends and their place in art, home decor, and libraries. Please enjoy browsing the site. If you are not a bookend collector now, you may be one soon. BOOKENDS: OBJECTS OF ART AND FASHION, Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2012 NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN Frasher Foto Postcard, 1932. Navajo Weaver in front of an Upright Loom . A black and white photo postcard of the same family group is located in the FRASHER FOTO POSTCARD COLLECTION at the Pomona, CA PublicLibrary.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Here is a pair of bookends which clearly were made by a metal workshop in Arts and Crafts style. Sheet copper was cut to size and the bookend front cut into shape, stamped with an emblem at the top, bent into an L shape, made convex to the front and stamped with a shop mark. BOOKENDS BY MCCLELLAND BARCLAY McClelland Barclay (1891-1943) was one of the best known and successful American artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in St. Louis, he was a student of H.C. Ives, George Bridgman and Thomas Fogarty. Barclay was a painter, an illustrator, a sculptor and a jewelry designer. His illustrations appeared on thecovers
COPPER | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR Posts about Copper written by Bookend Collector. “RING (No. 17019): A striking ring design by Von Nessen. In three combinations – satin brass and copper, English bronze and English copper, black nickel and satin nickel. Felt covered bottom. Height 5 inches, with 5 inches. Packed in an attractive gift box. Price, $5.00 per pair, retail.CONNECTICUT
Posts about Connecticut written by Bookend Collector. These well-cast iron bookends by Connecticut Foundry are of the West Face of the Lichfield Cathedral in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. LIchfield Cathedral was built during the thirteenth century and stands today as a premier example of Gothic architecture in England.ARMOR BRONZE
The J B Hirsch Foundry, established in 1907 and active until recently, gave us bookends with celluloid parts. Celluloid parts mimicked the ivory parts that were used in high-end sculptures. and lent panache to bookends. Celluloid, also referred to as Ivorine, is often denigrated now because it lacks the qualities of ivory, but all plastics were new and desirable in the early thirties.JENNINGS BROTHERS
Posts about Jennings Brothers written by Bookend Collector. Each bookend shows a young man standing and reading. He wears clothing appropriate to about 1895 – a FRANKART NUDE & FROG BOOKENDS Frankart Inc. was a New York City foundry established by the artist, Arthur von Frankenberg, in the early nineteen twenties. Frankart Inc. produced bookends, ashtrays, lamps, and other metal household accessories. Many of the items featured streamlined, sylph-like female nudes designed by von Frankenberg which were very well received, possibly because they contrasted with classical GRENFELL MISSION INUIT BOOKENDS In 1892 medical missionary Wilfred Grenell sailed up and down the Labrador coast as an emissary of the United Kingdom’s National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman investigating the medical needs and welfare of the local fisherman while delivering medical care from his base on the medical vessel Albert. Grenfell returned to Labrador andNewfoundland in
THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR The Bookend Collector is dedicated to documentation, elucidation, and divination of bookends and their place in art, home decor, and libraries. Please enjoy browsing the site. If you are not a bookend collector now, you may be one soon. BOOKENDS: OBJECTS OF ART AND FASHION, Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2012 NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN Frasher Foto Postcard, 1932. Navajo Weaver in front of an Upright Loom . A black and white photo postcard of the same family group is located in the FRASHER FOTO POSTCARD COLLECTION at the Pomona, CA PublicLibrary.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Here is a pair of bookends which clearly were made by a metal workshop in Arts and Crafts style. Sheet copper was cut to size and the bookend front cut into shape, stamped with an emblem at the top, bent into an L shape, made convex to the front and stamped with a shop mark. BOOKENDS BY MCCLELLAND BARCLAY McClelland Barclay (1891-1943) was one of the best known and successful American artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in St. Louis, he was a student of H.C. Ives, George Bridgman and Thomas Fogarty. Barclay was a painter, an illustrator, a sculptor and a jewelry designer. His illustrations appeared on thecovers
COPPER | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR Posts about Copper written by Bookend Collector. “RING (No. 17019): A striking ring design by Von Nessen. In three combinations – satin brass and copper, English bronze and English copper, black nickel and satin nickel. Felt covered bottom. Height 5 inches, with 5 inches. Packed in an attractive gift box. Price, $5.00 per pair, retail.CONNECTICUT
Posts about Connecticut written by Bookend Collector. These well-cast iron bookends by Connecticut Foundry are of the West Face of the Lichfield Cathedral in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. LIchfield Cathedral was built during the thirteenth century and stands today as a premier example of Gothic architecture in England.ARMOR BRONZE
The J B Hirsch Foundry, established in 1907 and active until recently, gave us bookends with celluloid parts. Celluloid parts mimicked the ivory parts that were used in high-end sculptures. and lent panache to bookends. Celluloid, also referred to as Ivorine, is often denigrated now because it lacks the qualities of ivory, but all plastics were new and desirable in the early thirties.JENNINGS BROTHERS
Posts about Jennings Brothers written by Bookend Collector. Each bookend shows a young man standing and reading. He wears clothing appropriate to about 1895 – a FRANKART NUDE & FROG BOOKENDS Frankart Inc. was a New York City foundry established by the artist, Arthur von Frankenberg, in the early nineteen twenties. Frankart Inc. produced bookends, ashtrays, lamps, and other metal household accessories. Many of the items featured streamlined, sylph-like female nudes designed by von Frankenberg which were very well received, possibly because they contrasted with classical GRENFELL MISSION INUIT BOOKENDS In 1892 medical missionary Wilfred Grenell sailed up and down the Labrador coast as an emissary of the United Kingdom’s National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman investigating the medical needs and welfare of the local fisherman while delivering medical care from his base on the medical vessel Albert. Grenfell returned to Labrador andNewfoundland in
THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR The Bookend Collector is dedicated to documentation, elucidation, and divination of bookends and their place in art, home decor, and libraries. Please enjoy browsing the site. If you are not a bookend collector now, you may be one soon. BOOKENDS: OBJECTS OF ART AND FASHION, Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2012 THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR 13 Jan. Height 6.75 inches, width 6 inches, which is relatively large for this style. circa 1920. This is a pair of Arts and Crafts style bookends from Ye Olde Copper Shoppe (1917-1922). In 1916 the metal smiths Fred Brosi and Hans Jauchen founded Ye Olde Copper Shop at 464 Sutter St in San Francisco. JAPANESE | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR Chuck De Costa was a major player in the world of bookend collectors. He amassed a great collection of beautiful and significant bookends, somewhere north of 2400 pairs. He was generous in sharing his collection and knowledge with other collectors. He was the author of the Collector’s Encyclopedia of Bookends.CERAMIC/TILE
Bookends by Horace E. Potter of Ohio with tile manufactured by Ernest A. Batchelder in California. Height 5.25 inches, width 5.25 inches, Length of foot behind the bookends 6.75 inches. A long foot is usually associated with age. Each of this pair of bookends is a figure ceramic tile by Batchelder in aART NOUVEAU
Knights in armor were a popular subject for bookends in the early twentieth century. They were prized as reflections of the Arts and Crafts ethos popularized by William Morris and Elbert Hubbard and for their romantic adventures. Like today’s digitally-based adventure stories where knights and medieval times are often featured, the adventure literature of the late 1800s and early 1900s were COPPER | THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR 13 Jan. Height 6.75 inches, width 6 inches, which is relatively large for this style. circa 1920. This is a pair of Arts and Crafts style bookends from Ye Olde Copper Shoppe (1917-1922). In 1916 the metal smiths Fred Brosi and Hans Jauchen founded Ye Olde Copper Shop at NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN Mucha Maiden: Alphonse Mucha, a Czech artist, is closely associated with the art style of Art Nouveau. He is famous for posters which featured beautiful women with whiplash curls. This bookend woman’s appearance is dominated by curls and so reminds us of “Mucha” FRED BROSI BOOKENDS 1927 The 2 pairs of Bookends seen in this post are from this later period of Brosi’s work, 1927 -1933. The bookends are 5 inches tall and 5 inches wide. The shopmark is an arm and hammer with the words MADE BY HAND. Brosi is admired for his meticulous handwork on his metal pieces, and this pair of copper bookends, called Nouveau Flower is a NATIVE AMERICAN/INDIAN Height 6″, gray metal. James Earle Fraser (1876-1953) is a famous American sculptor who designed the Indian Head or Buffalo nickel for the U.S. mint in 1913. This coin was widely circulated until it was discontinued after 1938. INDIAN SCOUT BOOKENDS Here is an Indian, holding a bow and bowstring, shading his eyes and peering into the distance. He stands on a metal base which is painted to look like black marble. The bookends are large, height 9 inches, width 7 inches, depth 3.5 inches. One knee rests on a mound, and theshop mark of
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WELCOME TO THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR10 Sep
THE BOOKEND COLLECTOR is dedicated to documentation, elucidation, and divination of bookends and their place in art, home decor, and libraries. Please enjoy browsing the site. If you are not a bookend collector now, you may be one soon. _BOOKENDS: OBJECTS OF ART AND FASHION, SCHIFFER PUBLISHING LTD.2012_
The preface to our 2012 book reads: “Donna and I wrote the first book on bookends in 1995 (Bookend Revue, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1996). At that time we briefly addressed bookends as works of art. Since that time we have become more aware of bookends as a medium of art and fashion, and we have attempted to show these relationships to all bookend lovers in this volume. Robert Seecof, November2011”
We remain fascinated by the beauty, variety, and art reflected inbookends.
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VICTORIAN CUPID BOOKENDS13 Sep
Cupid: Height: 7.5 inches, Electroform bronze. Production attributed to Paul Mori / Pompeian Bronze. Attributed to sculptor M. Rotellini. circa 1915. Cupid (Eros) is the ancient Roman (Greek) God of desire, erotic love, attraction, and affection. He was the son of Venus, Goddess of Love, and either Mars, Mercury or Vulcan. He is winged because lovers are flighty and liable to change their minds. He is a famous archer whose golden arrows cause uncontrollable desire, and whose leaden arrows quench desire and promote aversion. Cupid appears in literature, theater, and art many times over centuries. In paintings and sculpture he appears as a slender beautiful youth and as chubby toddler. The chubby toddler is a popular Valentine’s Day subject. Our Cupid, from the early 1900s, is a lovely depiction of a youth with his quiver of arrows, but no bow. He is standing over a a formal flower bouquet that includes roses, a flower that features in classical tales about Cupid. Click here to visit an earlier post about the sculptor M. Rotellini.SHARE THIS:
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THE SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS BOOKENDS28 Jun
There is an abundance of bookends commemorating the historic 1927 flight of Charles LIndbergh across the Atlantic from Roosevelt Field, Mineola, NY to LeBourget Airport, France. Lindbergh is captured in profile, in bust, in flying outfit, in front of the plane,………….. Spirit of Saint Louis. Iron, Height 5 inches. Inscription on the front: FIRST NON STOP FLIGHT NEW YORK TO PARIS MAY 21st TO 22nd 1927. TIME: 33HRS: 21MIN. PILOTED BY CAPT. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. on the back: WM P CO 1120. circa 1927. (Note – the dates arewrong.)
This bookend, showing the Spirit of Saint Louis, reminds us that the historic significance of the flight was about more than just Lindbergh. It was about a PRIZE and $$$, it was about GLORY, it was about ENGINEERING, and INGENUITY, and IMAGINATION, and it was about CELEBRITY and REPUTATION. And it was a competitive race to be FIRST! The Orteig Prize of $25,000 was originally offered in 1919 for the first non-stop flight from New York City to Paris, or the reverse, by an Allied Aviator. Offered for 5 years there were no competitors. It was re-offered in June 1925, and since aviation had made significant advances, a competitive field showed up. Six aviators died in their attempts and others were hurt. In 1927 there were several groups prepping for attempts at the prize, including one headed by polar explorer Richard E. Byrd. April and May of 1927 found everyone gathering at Roosevelt Field and Curtis Field testing their planes and waiting for the right conditions for the flight. An Airmail pilot, Charles Lindbergh, managed to convince 9 Saint Louis, Missouri businessmen to back him; and a small aeronautical firm in San Diego to deliver a plane, to his specifications, in sixty days. He was convinced that a single-engine monoplane using a whirlwind engine could take him to Paris. The “Ryan NYP” (for New York to Paris) was built. On May 10 -12 he flew it to Curtiss Field on Long Island, NY, setting a new North American transcontinental speed record, stopping in St. Louis on the way. Byrd offered Lindbergh the use of the longer Roosevelt Field runway. Lindbergh takes off on May 20 and thirty-three and half hours later captures the Orteig Prize by landing in Paris on May 21. The plane designed by Donald A Hall and built in San Diego which carried Lindbergh to success now rests in the Smithsonian, while a reproduction built in 1978-79, the Spirit of Saint Louis 3, resides in the rotunda of the San Diego Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park. Spirit 3 was last flown on the 75th anniversary of the 1927 flight. Spirit of Saint Louis 3. Reproduction at the Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego. It was flown on the 75th Anniversary of the original flight. The Bookend Collector, Bob Seecof, gives perspective to the plane’s size.SHARE THIS:
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TEMPLE OF ISIS BOOKENDS01 Jun
Temple of Isis: Height 4 inches, Iron. Mark-Bradley and Hubbard, circa 1925. Part of the Egyptian revival throughout the Western world which followed the display of the tomb contents of Tutankhamunin 1923.
Riveted on the front base of each bookend is a metal plate with the inscription “TEMPLE OF ISIS,” which should identify the ruins. Are they Greek, Egyptian, Roman or a Victorian interpretation of the facade of a Temple to Isis? In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the ruins of the ancient world were of great interest to European and American travelers or tourists. As bookends became popular decorative items in Victorian homes, they often reflected this interest in classical themes, such as this bookend of the Temple of ISIS. Isis was a very important Goddess in ancient Egypt. Already present in the Egyptian pantheon by 2000 BCE, she became the Goddess of motherhood, and was also revered as a magical healer who could cure the sick and bring the dead back to life. The cult of Isis spread throughout the greater Greek and Roman world, including the Greek island of Delos, where a famed ruin of an ISIS Temple stands. The island of Delos was a popular early tourist destination. These bookends depict temple ruins that resemble the Delos ruins but not exactly. Perhaps the Bradley and Hubbard artist never saw the Delos ruin. So…. our first guess was that these bookends were representative of the ruins on the Greek Island of Delos. But the Delos ruins have only 4 columns and are topped by an entablature (the upper part of a Classical design comprising an architrave, frieze and cornice), in other words, a triangle. However, there was another early and famous tourism site in Egypt, the ruins of Philae. And these ruins drew the attention of the world in the early 1900s (when bookends were coming into vogue) as they were in danger of being swamped by the building of the first ASWAN dam in 1902. The Temple of Isis at Philae is credited with columns that reflect the influence of Greek and Roman occupation of Egypt, such as carvings that resemble bundled reeds. The 5 columns of these bookends appear to have the “bundled reeds” carvings near the top. There are 5 columns along the side of the Temple of Isis at Philae. And our bookends display a Winged Sun Disc on the underhang of the cornice. A very typical Egyptian motif in the early 20thcentury.
So… our second guess would be that these bookends were meant to represent the Temple of Isis at Philae. We’d like to point out that Theodore Roosevelt visited these ruins in the early 1870s, long before they were moved to higher ground in order to preserve them.Inscription Plate
Bundled Reeds, Winged Sun Disc Temple of Isis. Bradley & Hubbard Makers MarkSHARE THIS:
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NUDE FLAPPER BOOKENDS11 May
Nude Flapper: Height: 5.5 inches, Gray metal, Attributed to Ronson,circa 1925.
Feminism was very topical in the nineteen twenties. Young ladies wanted the free and easy lifestyle of men, including smoking, gambling, drinking and sexual contacts. In order to look more like men they deemphasized breasts and cut their hair short. Today we remember these young ladies as flappers: The origin of the term is uncertain, however, click here for a Geneva (New York) HistoricalSociety blog post
from 2013 with a pretty thorough summary of the etymology. Issued in the nineteen twenties, these bookend nudes show us the short feminist haircut of the era, called “the bob,” so we know she wasa flapper.
Nude Flapper: Height: 5.5 inches, Gray metal, Attributed to Ronson,circa 1925.
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PHILIPPINE WEAVER BOOKENDS10 Apr
Filipina Weaving Bookends: Wood. Height 7.5 inches. Unmarked. Mid-twentieth century. Once in a while we see a pair of nicely carved Filipino bookends in an antique shop. They are usually a man or a woman carved from a single block of wood or a pair of horse heads. This set is more elaborate; each bookend shows an indigenous, perhaps Ifugao, Philippine woman weaving a cloth with a traditional geometric pattern on a traditional Palay hand loom. Each carving is from a single block of wood, probably native monkey pod wood, which has this appearance and is used for carving sculptures, tourist items, and for making furniture. The carver has captured the tension required in the legs and feet as the weaver tamps down the weft, or filling, inher weaving.
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Posted by Bookend Collectoron April
10, 2019 in Art Styles, Arts &
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Tags: backstrap
, bookends
, Carving
, Filipino
, Ifugauos
, indigenous
, loom
, Paete
, Palay
, Philippines
, sculpture
, weaver
, Wood
OLD MEXICAN BOOKENDS19 Mar
Old Mexican Bookends: Wood containing iron weights. Height woman 5.5 inches, man 6 inches. Five colors. Unmarked. This pair of bookends is unusual because they are a cut above the usual Mexican tourist bookends. The bookends show a peasant man and woman, huddled down under blankets or serapes. The pair is hand-carved, and the carving is quite well done; the sombrero is given a concave brim and the faces are painstakingly shown. It is old because all the paint is uniformly faded. Old Mexican Bookends: the man’s serape is painted with a design reminiscent of Saltillo weavings, he wears a high-crowned hat. The woman’s rebozo drapes nicely down her back and ends in the typical fringe. Notice the three plugs visible on the base. Both bookend bases show plugs that have been used to seal borings into the wood. Holes had been drilled and iron weights inserted to make the bookends heavier. (a magnet sticks to the base of either bookend). Weights inserted into the bases of wooden bookends made in the USA are occasionally found, usually in Victorian-styled bookends displaying flowers. But, who made these bookends; when and where were they made; are they folk art or a commercial effort? Perhaps one of our followers can give us some information. Sit and Sleep: Painted wood containing metal. Height 6.5 inches. Mexico (unmarked). circa 1930s. Metal plugs provide weight to bookends Sit and Sleep: Bookends of this general appearance are commonly seen in antique shops and shows. The pair pictured here are early tourist fare, probably from the 1930s. The tilt of the sombreros suggest the subjects are sleeping and eliminates the need to carve a face on the bookend. The hats are hinged and when tilted backwards, reveal a hollow interior containing a gray-metal slug that gives the bookend more weight. This caricature of a sleeping Mexican, became widely popular in the United States in the mid-twentieth century.SHARE THIS:
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Posted by Bookend Collectoron March
19, 2019 in Art Styles, Arts &
Crafts
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Western
Tags: 1920 , Arts &
Crafts ,
bookends ,
couple , Folk Art
, hand carved
, iron plug
, Mexican
, painted
, vintage
, Wood
YE OLDE PRINTER BOOKENDS28 Feb
Ye Olde Printer: Electroform bronze. Height 5 inches. Markings: Ye Olde Printer, Ruhl Sc (sculptor) (John Ruhl, 1873-1940.) Armor Bronze shopmark. Circa 1915. Johannes Gutenberg, German blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, invented metal movable type in about 1440. He adapted the use of metal type to a screw press (already available) to form a printing press that enabled the rapid production of books, the first of which was the Gutenberg Bible. Similar printing presses were built all over Europe, and millions of books appeared and were distributed thereafter. This was the information revolution of that distant age. Illustration of a printing press and composing stick from the first edition (1766-7) of the Encyclopaedia Brittannica, Vol. 3, plate CXLVII, Figure 1. https://www.britannica.com/technology/printing-press The writings and pictures by Martin Luther (1483-1546), Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), and John Calvin( 1509-1564 were printed on Gutenberg presses and their wide-spread availablity was critical to the initiation of the Protestant Reformation. William Gilbert (1544-1603), an English scientist and physician to Queen Elizabeth I, published Die Magnete in 1600 which was his pioneering work in experimental science. In it he presented the structure and procedures of experimental science for the first time, and this was arguably the greatest invention of secular humanity for all time. The Gutenberg printing press sped the dissemination of the scientific method across the literate world. These bookends, entitled Ye Olde Printer, depict a Gutenberg printing press. The printer moves a handle which turns a screw, and the screw presses a plate of inked type to a medium of paper or other material. The words formed by the inked type are transferred to the paper this way. The screw is visible at the back of the press. The immensely significant Gutenberg press is certainly a suitable subject forbookends.
UPDATE: Chris Bernhard sent photos of his Ye Olde Printer bookends. They are also sculpted by J. Ruhl and produced by Armor Bronze and are taller and more colorful. And they are a good addition to thepost.
Ye Olde Printer. 7.5 inches tall. Electroform. Armor Bronze shop mark. Ruhl signature.SHARE THIS:
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Posted by Bookend Collectoron February
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Tags: Armor , Armor
Bronze ,
bookends ,
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, Printer
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