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I Love Lucy Style Austrian Owl Bookends

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Owl Bookends on Etsy – Click Picture for details

Recently we looked at a similar black metal pair of owl bookends with no maker mark. Now these Owl bookends are listed on Etsy that have a Made in Austria mark on the base. They are identical to the other black ones except for the color of the marble base.

lucybookendsowlThe I Love Lucy Owl Bookends were Austrian and the same shape but had a darker marble and the owls were painted brown

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The Austrian owl bookends above are painted brown like the pair on I Love Lucy but they dont have a marble base. We know the color of the I Love Lucy ones from an original color on-set photo.

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Owl Bookends

Owl Bookends on I Love LucyIn an earlier post we looked at the owl bookends on the I Love Lucy set. The were  identified as Vienna Cold Painted Bronze bookends like those seen on Etsy HERE.  Since that post I came  across another pair quite like them. They have the heavy stone/marble base and are painted metal but the metal appears to be cast iron on the spots where some paint was missing.

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Painted Cast Iron Owl Bookends on a Stone /Marble Base
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Borghese Owl Bookends seen on Etsy this week – Click Picture to view on Etsy

See the Borghese Owl Bookends on Etsy (US) and another pair on eBay this week.

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Vienna Painted Owl Bookends like the pair on I Love Lucy

The most expensive are the Vienna pair but the others work well as less expensive substitutes. I got a Borghese pair and am tempted to try to repaint them to look like the Austrian pair after watching the video below on how to paint a marble effect for the base.

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Ricardo’s Owl Bookends Mystery

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Front view of Austrian Bronze bookend from UncleJimmysAttic on Etsy

It took me a while to get a clear screenshot of the book ends seen on the set of I love Lucy, it was difficult to make out what the shapes represented, but when I eventually discovered that they were owl figures the mystery deepened. Continue reading Ricardo’s Owl Bookends Mystery →