Any Idea's? It measures 5" long x 4 1/4" tall x 2 1/4" wide.

Have you searched for BR Co, New York?

 

What is it made from? They say this one was made by Pompeian Bronze Co but from what I've read they were not actually bronze but some white metal that's bronzed.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/264292314201?hash=item3d890cac59:g:kQYAAMXQBwlRI~3K

 

@Bakersgma may have hit it or come pretty close!! Top image edited/enhanced...
lower 'pretty much' original....assuming you are seeing the profile face to the left of the letters in the circle.....COOL CAT!!!

​

 

Interesting mixture of the great Deco type lines and then a rather vague cat. Great find. I would have swiped this up in a blink. Vaguely Sphinx meets domestic moggie!

 

https://www.harryrinker.com/col-1331.html

QUESTION: About 20 years ago, I inherited a pair of Atlas of the World bookends. Each features a three-dimensional cockatoo with a painted red beak sitting on the upper left corner of the book. The bottom is marked “Pompeian Bronze.” What can you tell me about my bookends? – CC, E-mail Question


ANSWER: The Pompeian Bronze Works traces its history back to the Galvano Bronze Company, a New York City firm founded by Paul Mori around 1889. Galvano Bronze was one of the first American commercial companies to use bronze electroplating and electroforming. Its earliest products were architectural elements. The company introduced bookends into its product line in 1915.


In the early 1920s, the Galvano Bronze Company was sold to its employees and became The Pompeian Bronze Works. Peter Manfredi, an employee, filed 27 book and lamp design copyrights with the U.S. Library of Congress Copyright Office in 1921. The company continued using the bronze electroplating (bronze-clad) and electroforming using white-metal (often pewter) or spelter (zinc) to make ashtrays, bookends, and lamps. In addition to a bronze finish, the company painted some of its products. Scholars are not able to agree upon the end date for the company. It appears that some of the Pompeian Bronze Company molds were acquired by the Marion Bronze Company.


[See http://www.antiquebookends.us/pg/makers-bronzeclad.php and http://www.artfact.com/subcollection/pompeian-bronze-works-ur1lea3458 for more information.]


The website http://eurekaifoundit.us/antique/metals.html notes in its “Fiction” section: “It’s bronze because it’s marked ‘Armor Bronze,’ ‘Pompeian Bronze’, or “Marion Bronze,’ False. These pieces are zinc with copper coating, produced by the ‘Electroformed’ or “Galvano’ process.” The website suggests lightly tapping a suspected bronze piece with a pencil. If the sound is a thud, it is zinc. A faint dull ringing tone indicates brass. Bonze has a clear ring tone.

Note from that excerpt that the molds moved around, so it might be some company other than Pompeian.

 

Still hoping to hear if it is metal rather than ceramic. Seems likely it is metal.

 

Sorry. Some sort of metal.