Rare Vntg Streamline Modernist Deco Machine Age Chase Walter Von Nessen Bookends

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A Von Nessen design prototype for Chase? Though unmarked, they are very similar in design and construction to the Chase Hoops & Balls bookends. Brass cylinder finials in place of spheres, heavy gauge copper & brass concentric rings. Each brass base varies slightly in size as the pictures show which again lends itself to a…

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Rare Vntg Streamline Modernist Deco Machine Age Chase Walter Von Nessen Bookends

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A Von Nessen design prototype for Chase? Though unmarked, they are very similar in design and construction to the Chase Hoops & Balls bookends. Brass cylinder finials in place of spheres, heavy gauge copper & brass concentric rings. Each brass base varies slightly in size as the pictures show which again lends itself to a…

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Modernist Art Deco Shearwater Pottery Pelican Bookends Walter Inglis Anderson

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Beautiful Shearwater Pottery (Ocean Springs, MS) 5.25 t. Pelican sculptures/bookends, a shape designed by Walter Inglis Anderson (one of the 3 founders of this studio in 1928). Possibly functional too, although you may have to add some kind of weight (such as rice kernels in a small baggie). Marked with the SP monogram and 18…

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Rare Cowan Pottery Art Deco Modernist Gear or Cogwheel Bookends Black & Silver

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This stellar set of bookends measure approximately 4.75 t. X 4.25″ x 4″ and are properly marked with the round die-impressed Cowan logo. Extraordinary Machine Age design that rarely surfaces on the market. Drexler Jacobson, who taught for many years at the Silvermine Guild in Connecticut. He was a member of the avant-garde, short-lived consortium…

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