April 16, 2024
vintage Galvano Bronze bookends Edgar A Poe's Poems, circa 1920, Kilenyi, parrot
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Prior to 1914 just about all high-end sculptural artwork was solid bronze. About that time a company called Kathodian Bronze Works began manufacturing small sculptural artwork such as bookends (back then they were called “book rocks”) and statuary using a process imported from Europe around the turn of the century known as electroplating or electroforming . About the same time a company called National Metalizing Company also began making this statuary, calling the finish "Armor Bronze". After WWI the assets of this Armor Bronze division were spun off as a new entity - The Armor Bronze Company of New York City. Armor Bronze relocated to Tauton Mass. in 1934. Much of the company's statuesque larger bookends were made in the teens and the twenties. By the end of the Roaring Twenties the only “bronze clad” manufacturer left was Armor Bronze. The Great Depression swallowed-up most of “bronze clad” artisans – as the process was deemed to be too expensive and time consuming. Offered here is a rare and very collectable set of bronze clad bookends: Edgar A Poe's Poems This a great set of bookends. Circa 1920s Bronze clad I had a set before that had the original Galvano P. Mori & Son paper label: hence, I am calling this Galvano bronze as it is the same set. These bookends are nearly a century old. Placido Mori, of Italian decent, is credited
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