Scarce Fred S. Gichner Iron Works Knights in Armor Bookends bread board wonderfully painterly and sculptural both

wonderfully painterly and sculptural both

My interest in salesman samples on occasion is somewhat less for their own sake as samples (though of course I love all things miniature

which would be used to tag deliveries of freshly caught fish to the businesses that would sell them--in this case Chas

from two big bellied suited fellows on the first page (cover is missing) punningly titled (I believe) “close corporations” to a pair of fabulous articulated wooden dolls titled “Babes in the wood

in a nice period frame

Scarce Fred S. Gichner Iron Works Knights in Armor Bookends bread board wonderfully painterly and sculptural bothSo fun, I couldn't resist these who doesn't need a knight in shining armor, or two, around? And turns out the Gichner Ironworks, which produced them, was quite notable opened in Washington DC in 1899 by Fred S. Gichner, a Jewish immigrant from Austria, who went on to design fine ironwork grates, fences, and more for the White House, various embassies, and well appointed homes all over town. During World War II, when local construction was stalled,