Virginia Metalcrafters

Mid Century iron and brass andirons / firedogs by Harvin / Virginia Metalcrafters for the Colonial Williamsburg Restoration line of products. Features colonial styling with scrolled ...

A fine vintage brass horse desk letter or paper clip by the Virginia Metalcrafters, dated 1949. Impressed maker's mark on reverse. This handsome equestrian desk...

Listed is a stunning, solid-brass Virginia Metalcrafters pineapple door knocker, circa 1960s. Heavily polished and appears to have never been used. Marked on backside with Virginia M...

Antique Art Deco J Loth Stoves Virginia Metalcrafters arts and crafts style andirons / firedogs featuring bow legged iron bases topped with a pierced floral filigree medallion. Marke...

For FULL item description click on CONTINUE READING at the bottom of this page. Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Lighting Acquisitions Of A Vintage Pair of Italian ...

Beautiful pair of rare solid brass "Libertas & Justitia" collectible bookends with legends by Aristotle and Thomas Jefferson manufactured by Virginia Metalcrafters, circa 1996. The b...

Beautiful pair of brass spread-wing eagle bookends by Virginia Metalcrafters, stamped 1952. The eagle is shown with its wings fully spread and a laurel branch and bundle of arrows clutched in its left talon. The eagle clutches a Union shield across its breast. The Union shield has a chief with three stars and six stripes completing the design. The eagle motif in décor and Folk Art has been widely used throughout our nation's history, most notably as part of our Great Seal. The founders of the United States were fond of comparing their new republic with the Roman Republic, in which eagle imagery, usually the golden eagle, was prominent. On June 20, 1782, the Continental Congress adopted the design for the Great Seal of the United States depicting a bald eagle grasping 13 arrows and an olive branch with its talons. When Charles Thomson put together the final design for the Great Seal, he placed a bundle of arrows in the eagle's left (sinister) talon. The official description specifies the bald eagle holding "in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows." The thirteen arrows are tightly aligned – a symbol of "strength in unity" that's found in the traditional cultures everywhere, from the Romans to the Iroquois— in this case a nod to the unity of the original 13 colonies. William J. Loth founded Virginia Metalcrafters in 1890, under the name Waynesboro Stove Company. The company, which made ornately cast Cook...

Pair of Iron & Brass Fireplace Andirons by Virginia Metalcrafters, USA, circa 1950s. Italianate design with tulip motif brass panels on forged iron, raised on scrolled feet. Wisp of ...