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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Pelady on January 05, 2016, 04:23:48 PM
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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
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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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Just wondering if Aronoson are marked? I've been looking at Aronoson bookends but not seeing this sets. I love a challenge!
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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
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Nice find there Pelady! I have a thing for bookends. Maybe its related to my love of books. Lol!
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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!
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Make a coffee and have a browse through this auction :
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/27404_antique-collection-of-american-bookends/
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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.
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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 !!
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Mart, kind of like the small jewelry chest give away with a Lane hop3 chest. I have both that were my grandmothers.
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How Cool!! Didn't know they had giveaways with furniture or Hope Chests! I have all of the family hope chests - no jewelry chests! :(
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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
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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 !!
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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!
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Darn,, how did that post get screwed up ?? Must have hit something I shouldn`t !!
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The freebie items are called "Premiums"!
Wow Mart. We rarely bought name brand items. But we did get jelly in mugs.
I remember hand towels, dish cloths and wash cloths in the clothes detergent.
S&H Green Stamps and True Value Stamps.
You can still get glasses with jelly but not the coolest ones like way back! Even Kraft still sells cheese in the "juice size" glasses.
My mom gave these to me awhile back and says they were premiums when she was young:
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(Note: these are not actual pics of my items which are boxed up due to having wooden floors installed (they are in and will be hand scraped/stained in 2 weeks! Borrowed from the wonderful internet!)
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Last year people were paying up to $39.99 for an unopened Breeze or Duz box with a towel inside!
If I remember correctly some even included dinnerware in a wheat pattern in the 60's!
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WE used those wash cloths and towels,, they were in a little cardboard box rolled up inside the detergent box !! Back then there were not as many brands to choose from !!
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I remember Mama getting towels and wash cloths in the clothes detergent but I can't remember the brand. I also remember helping mama "glue" S & H Greenstamps, Plaid, Go!d Bond and Top Value stamps into the books and going with her to the Greenstamps store to redeem her Greenstamps. I always loved helping her with this! One Christmas my sister and I got Little Debbie dolls she got through mail order by saving "box tops". Also, right after my grandfather died, all three of us got spoons in the mail from him. I was 4 when he died and I remember opening that package and loving my Yogi Bear spoon so much! I think Mama said he got them from Cream of Wheat.?. My spoon turned up missing when my kids were teenagers. I found one on an Etsy shop and bought it! Merchants and companies sure allowed people to be more thrifty back then.
KC I love your little creamers!!! They are just too cute!
I love walking down memory lane! Thanks for the chance to share! 😅
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I wish they still gave the premiums !! They are the collectables of tomorrow !! When I moved to this area from Mesquite the town only had 1200 people, one Piggly Wiggly, a few businesses around the square and the funeral home,,not much else !! I think they rolled up the sidewalks at 7pm !! One night some of the local school kids stole the big green and white "We Give S&H Green Stamps" sign from the Piggly Wiggly and placed it in front of the funeral home !! Caused a bit of talk in this small town !!
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The cost of funerals/burials these days it would be great if they gave stamps or Premiums! or Buy 1 Get 1 Frees! 😏
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Good story Mart! Lol KC, that would be wonderful!