Featured Any info on Brass? Bronze? dog dragging cape ashtray?

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  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I found this in a thrift store Friday - at first I thought it was a dog saving somebody; dragging them to safety - but a closer look from the bottom shows there's no head & it hasn't been broken off.
    Has anyone seen this before? Is it brass? Bronze?(!) Any idea of age?
    Thanks all!

    ASHTRAY DOG PULLING CAPE BRASS BRONZE 1AA.jpg ASHTRAY DOG PULLING CAPE BRASS BRONZE 2AA.jpg ASHTRAY DOG PULLING CAPE BRASS BRONZE 3AA.jpg ASHTRAY DOG PULLING CAPE BRASS BRONZE 4AA.jpg
     
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  2. Rob Langdon

    Rob Langdon Well-Known Member

    Looks very 1950-esque to me.
     
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  3. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

    Might be a pipe rest, nice.
     
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  4. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Aahh! Thanks!
     
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  5. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I think it's earlier. This kind of novelty was big in the early 20th. Really nice thing.
     
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  6. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    Look for the second piece, a brass lady stepping out onto the coat rather than a puddle.
     
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  7. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I'll look tomorrow but if it was there I didn't see it - and if it came out later I'm sure someone got it.
     
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  8. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Little Boston Terrier. Popular 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.

    Debora
     
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  9. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Looks like a dog pulling at someone's overcoat (I see sleeves & buttons).

    Adorable!!

    Animal-themed kitschy stuff was really popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I've seen numerous examples in silverware.
     
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  10. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    So have I. And also cold painted bronzes.
     
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  11. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Thanks all - should I list it as a pipe holder or ashtray?
     
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  12. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    It looks like an ashtray to me! The sleeve at the bottom appears to be rumpled to hold a cigarette? --Do you see that?
     
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  13. Boland

    Boland Well-Known Member

    Yes,I see what you mean. I would also think ashtray. Cool little thing that!
     
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  14. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    I’d list it as both. Let the buyer decide and double your keywords. Very well may be a Boston Terrier as someone said. I’d also put “Pug” in my listing. Antique Pug stuff is very collectible and it doesn’t look much unlike one to me. I’ve found a huge percentage of antique dog stuff to either be a bulldog or pug. Of course many breeds are represented on different things in different eras but those two breeds were particularly popular around the end of the Victorian era. So were Boston Terriers as evidenced particularly by Hubleys doorstops. Neat little thing.
     
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  15. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Thanks - I'll try to find it tomorrow; I have a old print of a Dr. pug caring for a sick pug!
     
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  16. Drew

    Drew Well-Known Member

    Brass will be lighter, yellowish tone copper cut with zinc- bronze is more brownish tone copper cut with nickel. Yours is looking more like brass.
     
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