• Buddy, the original seeing eye dog, bronze metal bookends are by McClelland Barclay Art Products Inc. from the 1930s and support the new illustrated biography of the Art Deco era artist
  • Buddy, the original seeing eye dog, bronze metal bookends are by McClelland Barclay Art Products Inc. from the 1930s
  • Buddy, the original seeing eye dog, bronze metal bookends are by McClelland Barclay Art Products Inc. from the 1930s
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McCLELLAND BARCLAY Pair of Bronze Plated "Buddy" the Original Seeing Eye Dog Bookends

McCLELLAND BARCLAY Pair of Bronze Plated "Buddy" the Original Seeing Eye Dog Bookends

These bronze plated metal bookends are called "Buddy." On the back base of each bookend, it says, "The original seeing eye dog for the blind." They make great desk companions.

Read more about Buddy and how the artist showed his love of dogs in this blog post: The Borzoi and other Art Deco dogs in McClelland Barclay's works.

 

Year Made: 1930s

Condition: very good vintage (there is a line across the head which occurred during the manufacturing process)

Marks: unsigned

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Materials

bronze plated metal

Dimensions

app. 6.5 x 4.5 inches, including the base x 2 bookends

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Read about McClelland Barclay Art Products

Discover more about the artist's commercial enterprise created in 1931 to market metal art objects, in the new, richly illustrated biography of McClelland Barclay by Patricia Gostick.

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