Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware it is very very close

it is very very close to complete

I'm in perpetual quest of great planters

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

and a different version for male student honorees

Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware it is very very closeThis 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"