Vintage Jennings Bros Art Deco Cast Iron w/Bronze Finish Male Discus Throwers. Catalog #777 heavy 5.8 pounds useful as bookends, office or man cave decor. The three Jennings brothers founded The Jennings Brothers Metal Foundry, located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1890. Note: A second source lists the start date as 1891 and a third source as 1892. The Jennings Brothers offices were originally located in two small wooden buildings and the foundry in a brick building. Eventually, Jennings Brothers built a large factory building on Elm Street in Bridgeport. In 1906, Jennings Brothers opened a salesroom in New York City. Jennings Brothers specialized in manufacturing metal art. Its Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts metal art included candelabra, clock housings, figurines, lamps, jewelry boxes, statues, and some silver-plated utensils. Many pieces were plated in ormolu trademarked J. “Ormolu Gold” and bronze Nouveau Bronze. In the 1920s, Jennings Brothers added a line of high-quality bookends to its manufacturing line. A talented pool of artists, sculptors, and metal craftsmen combined with expensive production techniques produced finely crafted art metal bookends through the 1920s and 1930s. Bookend production ceased when Jennings Brothers changed their manufacturing focus in the early 1940s to producing war supplies. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Decorative Collectibles\Bookends”. The seller is “pinewindfarm” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Brand: Cast Iron
- Type: Bookends
- Style: Art Deco
- Material: Bronze, Cast Iron
- Finish: Antique
- Subject: Discus Throwers