Vintage Syroco Horse Motif Bookend - Vintage Bookend Brown Syroco Bookend - Single Mid century Syroco Wood look Bookend Home Library Decor

Wonderful vintage single horse head bookend of a chestnut brown horse mounted on a lighter color wood background. Has expressive eyes. See NOTE about Syroco Wood below. While the head of the horse featured on the front of this wooden bookend is Syroco, the bookends piece itself is wood. The horse is a dark brown while the wood is more of an oak stain color.

Circa mid century item. This retro home or library decor piece has most the original Syroco Wood, Syracuse NY sticker on the back.

This bookend is in nice vintage condition with light wear commensurate with vintage age.

The single bookend measures approx. 6" tall, about 5 1/2" wide and is about 2 1/2" deep.

NOTE:
The Syracuse Ornamental Company, known as Syroco, was an American manufacturing company based in Syracuse, New York. They were best known for their molded wood-pulp products that resembled hand-carving.

Founded in Syracuse, New York in 1890 by immigrant Adolph Holstein, the Syracuse Ornamental Company (Syroco) specialized in decorative wood carving, especially for the local residential market. Products included fireplace mantelpieces and other types of interior decoration popular in late Victorian homes. To meet increasing market demand and sales opportunities Holstein developed a material looked and felt like wood but that which could be shaped, allowing multiple pieces to be produced through a molding process. The new product, which combined wood pulp brought from the Adirondacks with flour as a binder and other materials to give it strength, was extruded and then cut to fit compression molds, which had were made from original carvings in real wood.