Please see my other auctions for more antique and vintage bookends and doorstops that I will combine on shipping whenever possible. Get the best deals on Marion Bronze In Collectible Book Ends when you shop the largest online selection at. They are just as enchanting from the side and back as the front. I\'ve have seen both companies attributed to. These vintage bookends were either made by the Marion Bronze Co. Vintage Marion or Pompeian Bronze-Clad Cold Painted \'Owl on Books\' Bookends Pre-owned. Since these bookends are three dimensional or fully figural, they look even larger than they are and they can be displayed in so many positions. Vintage Marion or Pompeian Bronze-Clad Cold Painted \'Owl on Books\' Bookends: 149.99. The detailing on those ruffled feathers is wonderful. These are wondeful spooky, large owls that just stare right through you. Owls were associated early with bookends and bookracks since they were a symbol and companion to Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. The owl on books signifies the knowledge to be gained by reading. These are large, measuring over 8 inches tall and weighing 7 pounds the pair. These are most prized by bookend collectors for their beautiful finishes, their age, and the fact they have yet to faked since the process is too expensive and time consuming to copy. You can always tell these bookends by the remnants of the metal wicks in a shallow depression in their bases like these. They were then finished in long lasting, lustrous bronze and polychrome finishes by hand like these. Pompeian Bronze, along with it's contemporaries Marion, Armor and Galvano Bronze, made bookends a certain way by dipping plaster molds into a bronzing solution by long metal wicks until bronze clad. Also, you can find them pictured in the antique and vintage bookend reference guide by Kuritzky, "The Encyclopedia of Bookends", page 56, Plate 173, entitled OWL ON BOOKS and described as very rare. These no longer have the label on the base that said Pompeian but I guarantee them to be old, genuine, original and as described. These are some of my favorite bookends, the large horned owl bookends sitting on those polcychrome painted stack of books as a base, circa 1925, by the famous Pompeian Bronze Company.
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