Mining and Metal-Related Advertising Paperweights 

A group of nine figural advertising paperweights related to the mining industry or metals such as steel or aluminum:

• Asheville Steel & Salvage Co. (a metal mule atop a faux-brick surface)

• Hamilton Foundry, Quality Castings (a heavy metal Scottish terrier)

• Kendallville Foundry, Inc. (a heavy metal figural foundry worker)

• Alcoa (an aluminum man in a top hat, looking befuddled)

• Aluminum Industries, Inc. (an aluminum pig with three blocks of aluminum)

• United American Metals, Used the World Over (a heavy metal Indian chief head rising from a tiered circular base)

• Bunker Hill Zinc (a mule made from zinc)

• Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., Newgulf, Texas, May 31, 1960 (a lion's head made from sulphur)

• Cominco, The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited (an elephant atop a miniature zinc slab)

Longest lg. 4.75 in.

Some wear.

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