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Property from a New York Collection

The Roycrofters

A Rare Pair of Bookends

Auction Closed

December 8, 09:48 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

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Property from a New York Collection

The Roycrofters

A Rare Pair of Bookends


circa 1909

handwrought copper

each impressed with firm's "orb and cross" cipher

6½ x 4 x 4¾ in. (16.5 x 10.2 x 12.1 cm) each

Robert Judson Clark, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, Princeton, NJ, 1972, p. 47
The present lot is one of only three known extant pairs.