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Fantastic pair of period Erphila German bookends of a great nautical theme. One seaman tugs at a rope straining against the weight, and the other pushes a barrel perhaps filled with whisky for the voyage. These are hollow and meant to be filled with sand or some other substance to provide weighting. Each stands approximately 6" high, 5.25" long, and 3" deep. Fantastic coloring on both pieces...the blues, burnt orange, grays, and creams really go together. While most Erphila is Czech, these are the much harder to find German production. The Erphila mark was used on porcelain imported by Eberling & Reuss of Philadelphia, PA. The fellow with the rope has the tiniest glaze chip (not really a chip) at his elbow, and the barrel fellow has three of the same type of areas of missing glaze (but again not really a chip per se). It looks like just a bit of surface glaze came off in these areas as they really don't penetrate the figure beyond the surface. /85

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