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8 pairs of bookends, keepsakes & hand-made

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Title: Eight pairs of keepsake or hand-made bookends.
Author: **
Description: Includes: Ceramic bookends of a man, wearing a giant sombrero, sitting against the wall of a church(?) with a small bell overhead. Painted with green, blue, red and yellow. Labeled W.h.h. copyright 1939. 7" tall with 3x5½" base. * Ceramic hand-painted bookends of an young Asian woman, sitting and reading a book. Each young woman wears a different hat and hairstyle, but everything else is the same. Each are hand-painted gold, white, and black. Felt on bottom and stickers which read American Art Industries, Miami, FLA. Also engraved on their back is "AIA" and the year '51. 4¾" tall with 2½x4" base. * Red ceramic bookends, with shallow carving of the profile of a Native American wearing a feather headdress. Very simple semi-circle on a base with image carved into it. No labeling. 4½" tall with 4x4" base. * Souvenir black plastic bookends. One is a female, the other is a male, both are hula dancing upon a base that reads Hawaii. The bottoms read "Made in Hawaii a Hip Original." 8" tall with 1½x2½ base. * Slim metal bookends with a color pictorial label laid on. The picture is after a painting of a woman standing outside her cottage and windmill, a small boat sits against the shore, in the forefront. One of the pictures has been darkened with a significant stain, the other stained a bit. 5½" tall with 3¼x3½" base. * Wooden car mounted to base, consists of three stained colors of wood. Four small felt roundels at bottom corners, no labeling.5½" tall with 4x6¼" base. * Hand painted ceramic bookends with figure of a nude Native American sitting. Painted with brown, green, black, red and white. Felt on bottoms, no labeling. 6¼" tall with 4x4¾" base. * Pair of Chinese Foo Dogs. Stylized guardian dogs sitting upon decorative base, all carved out of gray marble. Finely detailed. Marble is scratched, and has a few chips, including a 1cm chip to rear of base of one. 5½ tall with 2¼x3¼ base.
Heading: zzk(Bookends)Place Published: N.p.
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Date Published: [20th cent]

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