Bookends Prophets

[Pelady]

Another set of bookends:
5 by 6 inches, this set is brass and extremely heavy.  No markings, text says:  The prophets, Elijah, Moses, Joshua and the commandments.  Any ideas on value and age?
PeLady

[Jlsherf]

Could these possibly be cast iron with brass plate?   Maybe Aronoson?  Or is the detail  not the quality of Aronoson?  Searching these possibilities. 
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[Jlsherf]

Just wondering if Aronoson are marked?  I've been looking at Aronoson bookends but not seeing this sets.  I love a challenge!

[Pelady]

Found a few things myself.  It is based on John Singer Sargent's Frieze of Prophets in the Boston Public Library:  http://www.jssgallery.org/paintings/bpl/Frieze_of_Prophets.html

Found a few completed listings on eBay
First listing is most similar to mine.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=the%20prophets%20bookends&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

PeLady

[Jlsherf]

Nice find there Pelady!  I have a thing for bookends.  Maybe its related to my love of books.  Lol!

[KC]

I too enjoy bookends and have enjoyed seeing the ones you are posting PeLady!  We have gotten a few family treasures that we like to hold on to over the years!

[Ipcress]

Make a coffee and have a browse through this auction :

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/27404_antique-collection-of-american-bookends/

[Jlsherf]

Still going through this auction Ipcress and love it!  Thanks for the link.  Question, what happens to items like this that don't sell on the auctions?  Sad to say the only auctions I've ever bid on were at Shopgooxwill.com!  Lol!  I know where those items end up.....  I was must looking earlier at an Invaluable auction of lost items out of California And was wondering about this.

[mart]

Pretty sure these bookends are from mid century !! Furniture companies used to give things like this as gifts with a purchase !!  My mother received a similar set of bookends but different subject matter when she bought a new sofa !!  She got a set of china with the purchase of a dining set !! Was a common practice back then !!

[Jlsherf]

Mart, kind of like the small jewelry chest give away with a Lane hop3 chest.  I have both that were my grandmothers.

[KC]

How Cool!!  Didn't know they had giveaways with furniture or Hope Chests!  I have all of the family hope chests - no jewelry chests! 

[Pelady]

I was trying to use the quote button but everything I typed came out in quotes also! Grrrr, so I just deleted it all.

Wanted to tell Ipcress that I loved the auction site!  We're all those bookends from one collection?

Pelady

[mart]

Yes !!  Money was e when you bought the large box of oatmeal !!tight back then and many mfrs. added free gifts with purchase !!  Like the 3 Minute oats with the glass inside when you bought the large box of oatmeal !!  Peanut butter was sold in footed glasses so you had to keep buying that brand of peanut butter to get a full set !!

[Jlsherf]

My grandmother had many of these give always she gave to mama when she moved in with us when I was only 4.  The give always I remember were the Flintstone jelly glasses.  Couldn't wait for the jelly to be gone so I could drink out of it!  Lol!

[mart]

Darn,, how did that post get screwed up ?? Must have hit something I shouldn`t !!