![]() ![]() In her shop, Aunti-Qs of Morgan Hills, California lists a pair with some bronze loss to the book page edges and minor polychrome paint loss on the front and back. There were five bids indicating interest from two or more bidders. A pair in very good condition sold through on eBay on for $78.99 plus $11.00 shipping. I found several internet sale listings for your bookends. McBride’s A Collector’s Guide to Cast Metal Bookends (Schiffer Publishing, 2000). The bookends are described as weighted bronze in Gerald P. They were manufactured in the early 1920s. The front and back have a light French blue polychrome finish. ![]() Your bookends measuring 9 1/4in high, 5 1/2in wide, and 3 1/4in deep. A faint dull ringing tone indicates brass. These pieces are zinc with copper coating, produced by the ‘Electroformed’ or “Galvano’ process.” The website suggests lightly tapping a suspected bronze piece with a pencil. ![]() The website notes in its “Fiction” section: “It’s bronze because it’s marked ‘Armor Bronze,’ ‘Pompeian Bronze’, or “Marion Bronze,’ False. It appears that some of the Pompeian Bronze Company molds were acquired by the Marion Bronze Company. Scholars are not able to agree upon the end date for the company. In addition to a bronze finish, the company painted some of its products. The company continued using the bronze electroplating (bronze-clad) and electroforming using white-metal (often pewter) or spelter (zinc) to make ashtrays, bookends, and lamps. Library of Congress Copyright Office in 1921. Peter Manfredi, an employee, filed 27 book and lamp design copyrights with the U.S. In the early 1920s, the Galvano Bronze Company was sold to its employees and became The Pompeian Bronze Works. The company introduced bookends into its product line in 1915. Its earliest products were architectural elements. Galvano Bronze was one of the first American commercial companies to use bronze electroplating and electroforming. The bottom is marked “Pompeian Bronze.” What can you tell me about my bookends? – CC, E-mail QuestionĪNSWER: The Pompeian Bronze Works traces its history back to the Galvano Bronze Company, a New York City firm founded by Paul Mori around 1889. Each features a three-dimensional cockatoo with a painted red beak sitting on the upper left corner of the book. QUESTION: About 20 years ago, I inherited a pair of Atlas of the World bookends. Zip lunch kit is between $25.00 and $30.00. Thus far, there are only two bidders.Ī realistic secondary market value for your Mr. With two days to go, the bidding has reached $10.49. Zip lunch kit in the same condition as the first two examples currently being sold at no reserve. Another eBay seller, obviously only half as optimistic as the first, has a second example in the same condition listed at a “Buy It Now” price of $48.95. Zip lunch kit listed at a “Buy It Now” price of $119.99. An eternally optimistic eBay seller has a Mr. ![]() In terms of determining value, beware of seeing only what you want to see as opposed to the full picture. Zip lunch kit was part of Aladdin’s 1969 line. In 1950, Aladdin manufactured the first character lunch box. In the 1920s, Aladdin introduced bottles and lunch kits. In the late 1910s, the company diversified its product line by adding insulated cooking ware. It introduced the “Aladdin” lamp, a clean burning product, in 1912. Victor Samuel Johnson founded the Mantle Lamp Company of America in 1908. Zip on the selvage (non-stamp portion of the sheet.) The five cent Sam Houston stamp issued on January 10, 1964, was the first sheet (more correctly, pane) to feature Mr. ZIP, “Zippy.” He appeared on the first U.S. The responsibility of enticing the general public to adopt the new system fell to Mr. Commercial mailers quickly adopted the new zip codes, due in large part to a reduced mailing rate if the five-digit code was used. The five-digit zip code and the two-letter state abbreviations were introduced on July 1, 1963. The Post Office’s artist tweaked the figure by enhancing the limbs and torso and adding a mailbag. AT&T eventually acquired the rights to the character and donated them to the United States Post Office, now the United States Postal Service, to help promote the introduction of the five-digit zip code. Is my lunch kit really worth this much? – G, Janesville, WIĪNSWER: In the late 1950s, Howard Wilcox, a member of the staff of the Cunningham and Walsh advertising agency, developed a stick figure of a postman delivering a letter for a bank-by-mail advertising campaign. Although the lunch kit collecting craze has ended, I found a listing for over one hundred dollars on the internet. Zip lunch kit (box plus thermos) in very fine or better condition. ![]()
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