2 Syroco Bookends - Vintage Stack of Books Brown Mid Century Shabby Chic / Cottage Chic Home Library Decor - Retro Bookend

Wonderful vintage pair of brown Syroco bookends made by the Syracuse Ornamental Company many years ago. The shape is an open book with the pages fanned on the top. The faux book is raised on the front and the cover is expanded over the whole front of each bookend. The spine is in the very center. The spine has the title of the book ESSAYS VOL II on it in raised letters. There are raised floral and scroll designs on the front covers that are to the left and right of the spine.

These open books will keep your books standing upright as they sit proudly on your shelf. They are wonderfully mid century shabby chic or cottage chic decor.

One of these two bookends has the original sticker on the back for Syroco Wood, Syracuse NY. See NOTE below about Syroco.

These bookends are in nice vintage condition with wear commensurate with vintage age that makes them perfectly shabby chic. The original backing on the bottoms is still intact and is a an off white felt - see photos for detail.

Each bookend measures approx. 6" high and 4 1/2" wide. They are 4 1/2" in depth.

Each bookend weighs 1 lb. 2 ounces.

NOTE:
The Syracuse Ornamental Company made a product known as Syroco. The company 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.



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