Bidspirit auction | Pair Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Cast

Pair Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Cast Iron Bookends - This pair of cast iron bookends is decorated in high relief with a portrait of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow is rendered in a classical style, wearing draped robes and holding a quill pen over an integrated inkwell motif. Below the bust, a raised plaque is inscribed with the name HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. The background and reverse of the bookends feature a uniform pebbled texture. The metal has a dark, aged patina with remnants of a bronze-toned finish. These items are characteristic of early 20th-century American library accessories, typically dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.