Pair of Brass Eagle Bookends, 1970's

Sculptural Brass Elephant Bookends, 1970's. Nice original patina.

Elegant brass bookends in the form of two stag heads. They are heavy and will hold heavy books in space on your bookshelf.

Vintage Large Scale Brass Rams Head Bookends, 1970's

10" tall Cast Brass Waterfowl Bookends From Korea. Nice patina to the brass from age.

Pair of vintage brass bird of prey or eagle bookends made of brass or yellow copper, circa mid 20th century, probably Korean. These heavy brass boo...

Bookends Eagles set of 2 made in gilt metal. On blackened metal base. Measures: L 14 x D 11.5 x H 17.5 cm each.

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...

This matched pair of antique figural Bald Eagles are unsigned, but presumed to have been made in the United States in approximately 1900 in an Edwardian style. The eagles are cast in a very realistic and detailed manner in a spelter or base metal, and patinated with a brass finish. The eagles stand...