VINTAGE 1925 ARMOR BRONZE POLYCHROME MONK BOOKENDS OLD

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These are vintage bronze clad bookends with polychrome painted finish from about 1925. At one time, they would have had paper labels on the bases saying Armor Bronze but those are long gone. But I have had these before with the labels and guarantee them to the the original ones by Armor Bronze. Armor Bronze, along with it's contemporaries Marion, Pompeian and Galvano, made bookends a certain way that was so time consuming and expensive that they have yet to be faked or replicated. So they are prized by antique and vintage bookend collectors. What they did is dip plaster molds by long metal wicks in the base into a bronzing solution. When bronze clad, they cut off the wicks, leaving telltale remnants in shallow depressions in the bases. By this, we always know these bookends to be old, original and authentic. These are wondefully expressive medieval monk scholars in long robes, with rosary beads and a cross for belt, sandalled feet, and readign a missal or book. Long bearded and great studious expression on their faces. They are fully figural or three dimensional, so they display well from so many angles. They are big, measuring 7 and a half inches tall and weighing 6 pounds each. These are based on a sixteenth century large original bronze statue in Rouen at the tomb of the ditary Dukes of Burgundy in France. They have no damage read more
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