File:Bronze Art Deco bookend made by Revere Copper from FDR's Oval Office Desk.jpg

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English: A simple Art Deco style bookend made of bronzed metal. The vertical bookend base has a simple horizontally-grooved wide band as decoration. Attached to the base is an expandable curved metal band, the tension of which holds one or more books against the base. Gray felt lines the bottom of the base. The makers mark is on the underside: Revere / Rome, N.Y. / Pat. Appld for. President Roosevelt kept this bookend on his Oval Office desk.
Date 1930s
Source https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/8099/bookend
Author Estate of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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current05:46, 18 September 2022Thumbnail for version as of 05:46, 18 September 2022800 × 781 (40 KB)Senator2029 (talk | contribs){{Information |Description={{en|A simple Art Deco style bookend made of bronzed metal. The vertical bookend base has a simple horizontally-grooved wide band as decoration. Attached to the base is an expandable curved metal band, the tension of which holds one or more books against the base. Gray felt lines the bottom of the base. The makers mark is on the underside: <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Revere / Rome, N.Y. / Pat. Appld for.</span> President Roosevelt kept this bookend on his...

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