Chase Elephant Bookends by Walter Von Nessen

Chase Nickel plated Brass elephant bookends.  Unusual finish with satin nickel body and polished nickel head and trunk. Important design by famous industrial design pioneer Walter Von Nessen who worked for Chase and designed many of the company’s most important streamline art deco objects  of period. These were American made using the most forward thinking  technology at the time. Utilizing  hand polished nickel and brass, these are in amazing restored condition and have the famous Chase mark. Made circa 1931.

Chase Brass and Copper company

Chase entered the consumer market with a line of chrome Art Deco household items in the 1930s, created by leading designers of the day such as Russel Wright, Rockwell Kent and Walter Von Nessen. They were usually signed with the distinctive company logo of a centaur drawing a bow.