Old Friends, Inc. Launches OldFriendsBookends.com, a New Website Offering Vintage, One-Of-a-Kind Metal Bookends
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Old Friends, Inc. unveils a new website dedicated to offering unique gift-giving opportunities: vintage, one-of-a-kind metal bookends. The site features a selection categorized by theme, ranging from art deco to sports to animals and more.
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 4, 2009 -- Old Friends, Inc. has launched a new website, OldFriendsBookends.com, just in time to help busy shoppers with their holiday gift list. This site offers unique vintage metal bookends in more than 22 categories, including art deco pieces, male and female figures, music, dance and theatre icons, sports-related sets, and much more.
Antique Metal Bookends from Old Friends, Inc.
OldFriendsBookends.com is an upscale, online marketer of vintage and antique bookends, made from metals such as bronze, cast iron, brass, pewter, aluminum, and copper. At any given time, the website presents distinctive bookend sets ranging in price from under $100 to over $500, offering unique holiday ideas for business and personal gift-giving. Shoppers can search the site by price or category. For unique holiday gift ideas, OldFriendsBookends.com carries:
| | - Animal-themed bookends, such as the bronze-coated "Crouching Tiger," and the circa 1925 "Puppy Triplets"
- Cast iron bookends featuring many art deco pieces such as "Tambourine Girl," "Deco Dancer with Scarf" and "Keyhole View"
- Bronze bookends, including the sculptural "Orchestra Instruments"
- Many items in the literary/books/reading genre
- Sports-related bookends including an extremely rare cast iron depiction of Babe Ruth from the late 1920s
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"We believe that vintage bookends are intelligent, thoughtful, unusual gifts that last a lifetime. They complement any decor, usually appreciate in value, and are both beautifully functional and beautiful works of art," states Berton Miller, President of Old Friends, Inc.
The bookends offered by OldFriendsBookends.com were primarily produced from the early 1900s to around the beginning of World War II by foundries that, for the most part, no longer exist. A particular foundry may have produced, for example, 1000 pairs of bookends of the same design. When they were originally produced, they were not unique. However, in the intervening 70 to 100 years, each set that has survived had a different life, was subjected to different situations and environments. Thus, no two surviving sets are the same.
Every set of antique bookends is sent to the recipient with a Certificate of Heritage, which explains the story of the bookends, their history, material, rarity, foundry name, artist's name (if known) and approximate age.
Ivy Miller, Vice President, further reiterates that "vintage bookends make great business and personal gifts for people with special interests and anyone who appreciates artistic artifacts that are collectible items." These decorative bookends answer the age old conundrum of what to get the person who has everything.
Shoppers looking for a timeless gift idea this holiday season can browse the selection at OldFriendsBookends.com.
About OldFriendsBookends.com:
OldFriendsBookends.com is a new website dedicated to offering unique metal bookends. Each bookend comes with a Certificate of Heritage that details the history of the selection. There are more than 22 categories of vintage bookends available and the selection changes regularly.
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