RARE LIONESS JUNGLE CAT POMPEIAN BRONZE BOOKENDS 1925

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These are guaranteed old, genuine and original. These are unsigned but can only be by a handful of makers, circa 1925. Pompeian, Armor, Marion and Galvano Bronze, between 1913 and 1939, made some of the most highly sought after and collectible bookends that ever existed, the bronze clad ones. These companies dipped these bookends into a bronzing solution until bronze clad by means of long metal wicks in the bases. When clad, they cut off the wicks, leaving telltale depressions with the remnants in the bases. By these we always know these bookends. These have those depressions in the base. They are by either Pompeian or Galvano Bronze and I believe Pompeian. They are shown as signed but the same casting on page 152, Plate 937, entitled LEOPARDS, in the Encyclopedia of Bookends. And in fact, these have some kind of a mark I cannot make out under their legs. Maybe the C within a circle of the Pompeian Bronze Company. And these are guaranteed to be a Paul Herzel design and PB did most of his work. I have seen an original statue of this same casting signed by Herzel in 1918 in auction before. These measure 6 inches tall by 6 inches long and weigh 7 pounds the pair. In very nice conditon indeed, the only damage being minor stress cracking on one ear. I show a picture of this but it is very very slight indeed. Nice deep bronze finish, only read more
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