Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware I'm in perpetual quest of

I'm in perpetual quest of great planters

Inside one is a piece of real honeycomb

one eye raised as if to interrogate us

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

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

Heavy Welded Iron Folk Art Bookends with Axes Staffordshire transferware I'm in perpetual quest ofThis 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"