Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware and a different version for

and a different version for male student honorees

and the box seems still to contain most of them--as pictured

made in Worchester

Wonderfully worn

one eye raised as if to interrogate us

Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware and a different version forThis pair is heavy enough to hold up even the heaviest row of art books or perhaps ideally a bunch of tomes about self sufficiency, i. e. how to build a log cabin and the like! The "logs" are made of iron and hollow inside, and the axes I believe made of steel and welded onto the bases. They appear to have a good amount of age, and would be equally great just treated as tabletop sculptures, perhaps one to gift and one to keep for oneself! Each "log"