Selling Antique pompeian bronze ny co. painted monks w/books/library bookend book end

* * Antique, circa 1922
* One (1) bookend.
* Has a deep, rich, lovely patina and thick art deco period paint.
* A monk in a library of books reading.
* 3.25" W x 2.0"D x 4.25"T

* The Pompeian Bronze Works traces its history back to the Galvano Bronze Company, a New York City firm founded by Paul Mori around 1889.  Galvano Bronze was one of the first American commercial companies to use bronze electroplating and electro-forming.  Its earliest products were architectural elements.  The company introduced bookends into its product line in 1915.

In the early 1920s, the Galvano Bronze Company was sold to its employees and became The Pompeian Bronze Works.  Peter selling Manfredi, an employee, filed 27 book and lamp design copyrights with the U.S. Library of Congress Copyright Office in 1921.  The company continued using the bronze electroplating (bronze-clad) and electroforming using white-metal (often pewter) or spelter (zinc) to make ashtrays, bookends, and lamps.  In addition to a bronze finish, the company painted some of its products.  Scholars are not able to agree upon the end date for the company.  It appears that some of the Pompeian Bronze Company molds were acquired by the Marion Bronze Company

* Pompeian, along with it's contemporaries Marion, Armor and Galvano Bronze made bookends in the 1920's through 1930's by a method that was very time consuming and expensive that they have yet to be falsified or duplicated.
* These pieces are highly prized by serious collectors. 
* They would dip a plaster mold into a galvanizing metal solution until bronze clad by long, metal wicks in the bases. 
* When bronze clad, they cut off the wicks, leaving telltale depressions in the bottoms of the bases with the remnants of the wicks similar to this piece as shown in the photographs. 
* A quality piece of american history that will only increase in value.
* I package well and ship out daily!