Vintage Hartford Insurance Copper Promotional Bookends casting Perspiration Proof

Perspiration Proof

The Continental Baking Company

the lamp embodies the playful futurism of the era

an event that gave rise to the so-called "Curse of the Bambino

and some small missing portions along the top edge

Vintage Hartford Insurance Copper Promotional Bookends casting Perspiration Proofc. 1935; Hartford Fire Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut Matched pair of bronze bookends issued by Hartford Fire Insurance Company, dated 1810 1935 as cast into the bases. Each bookend features a raised stag set within a framed landscape scene, modeled by Laura Gardin Fraser after the work of Edwin Landseer. The composition reflects the continued influence of Landseer's romantic animal imagery on early 20th century American sculptural and