Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware made in Worchester

made in Worchester

with very satisfying crusty old painted surface and carved form a bit suggestive of an arrow--making it a good one for hanging on the wall pointing toward whatever

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

I'm in perpetual quest of great planters

as there are two well worn holes near the bottom

Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware made in WorchesterThis 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"