Shepherd Girl and Flock Armor Bronze Bookends

A timeless agrarian scene... "Girl and Flock", made circa 1922 by the Armor Bronze Company, a pair of vintage electroformed bronze-clad figural book ends, with original polychrome paint (red, orange, yellow, white, black, green). These bookends depict a girl or woman, wearing a dress and head scarf and holding a walking stick or staff; she is following behind a flock of sheep, and carrying a bundle or sheaf of hay over her shoulder.

No. 12 in Kuritzky and De Costa. Rare, the authors give these a rarity rating of 5 out of 5.

SPECS: Each measures about 4.9" tall by 6.1" wide by 2.75" deep, the pair weighs in at 5 lbs 13 oz. Marked "Armor Bronze" on the side, incised. One bookend has the number "3" hand-incised into the bottom, the other bookend has the number "39" hand-incised into the bottom (these numbers were incised into the plaster prior to the electroforming addition of the bronze clad). The bookend incised "3" also has a tiny 1mm x 6mm gap in the bronze-cladding in the scarf on the back of her head -- it appears to us to have been a small factory defect, common in the days before serious quality control; also, a corner-bulge (usually indicative of casting anomalies, where the underlying plaster has the same shape) -- see the close-up photo. This tiny piece of missing cladding is all but invisible to our eyes.

A great gift for your organic farmer, gentleman farmer friend, or AG student kid-sister.

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CAREFULLY PACKED, DOUBLE BOXED, and ready to go; see the photos. Item is packed with silica gel dessicant pack(s) to prevent humidity damage in storage/transit. Note: Packing-photos show stages of packing this item; know that boxes are always full or slightly overstuffed with packing material to prevent any shifting or settling.

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