Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware and the box seems still

and the box seems still to contain most of them--as pictured

it is very very close to complete

as there are two well worn holes near the bottom

) There is a bit of old green paint in a couple of spots

Inside one is a piece of real honeycomb

Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware and the box seems stillThis 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"