Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware Inside one is a piece

Inside one is a piece of real honeycomb

one eye raised as if to interrogate us

and a different version for male student honorees

One of two horizontal struts on the underside of the lid

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

Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware Inside one is a pieceThis 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"