Art Deco 1930's B & H Bookends (2) Historic Mt. Pleasant & Bramshill Mansions

Description: Art Deco 1930's B & H Bookends (2) Historic Mt. Pleasant & Bramshill Mansions Bramshill House, in Bramshill, northeast Hampshire, England, is one of the largest and most important Jacobean prodigy house mansions in England. It was built in the early 17th century by the 11th Baron Zouche of Harringworth but was partly destroyed by fire a few years later. The design shows the influence of the Italian Renaissance, which became popular in England during the late 16th century. Mount Pleasant is a historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, atop cliffs overlooking the Schuylkill River. It was built about 1761–62 in what was then the countryside outside the city by John Macpherson and his wife Margaret. Macpherson was a privateer, or perhaps a pirate, who had had "an arm twice shot off according to John Adams. B & H (Bradley and Hubbard), “Masters of Metalwork”- started out producing clocks, during the Civil War when markets opened west of the Mississippi. Throughout the 1850s and 1860s they added other lines of household goods including sewing machines, call bells and match safes. In 1859, with the discovery of oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, B&H began producing kerosene burning lamps, which eventually replaced whale oil burning lamps. By the 1890s B&H had showrooms in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.Their high quality product lines of artistic household goods sold throughout the country at Marshall Field, Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. In the 1920s and 1930s they produced a line of outstanding bronzed or polychromed cast iron bookends from molten iron poured into sand molds. B&H bookends are noted for their heavy weight, fine finish and excellent detail. They are extremely popular with collectors and consistently command premium prices in today’s market. Some of their bookends are included in the Castle Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. (2) Historic LandmarksRectangle 5.5"x5"Heavy Bronzed IronBack Stamped7LBS 4Oz

Price: 89 USD

Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

End Time: 2025-01-13T12:39:55.000Z

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