Arts and Crafts Bronze, Ruskin Enamel, Art Nouveau Playing Cards Bridge Box Jewelry Casket Faulkner Bronze Jesson Birkett Birmingham Guild

Beautifully made, very heavy, Bronze crafted and Ruskin Roundel decorated, genuine Arts and Crafts Antique Playing Cards or Bridge Casket or Games Box attributed to Faulkner Bronze Company c 1900 featuring stylised Art Nouveau Grapes and Vines Cessation Pattern.

This is a breathtakingly beautiful very heavy box for two playing card decks created by hand in what is estimated to be Bronze in early 1900, most probably by Faulkner Bronze Company.

The hand-crafted bronze frame is decorated with applied bronze metal strips and Cessation style grapes and vines designs forming a cross on the hinged lid with Ruskin Roundel as a centerpiece.

Dimensions: 19.5 cm by 14 cm by 5.5 cm.

Weight: 1263 g (very heavy)

Beautiful condition with some signs of age to green leather-type interior.

Faulkner Bronze Company, later Jesson Birkett & Co was formed in 1901 by Fred. G. Faulkner, Thomas Birkett and Arthur. G. Jesson based in Tenby Street, Birmingham.

Thomas Birkett was a former member of the Birmingham Guild of handicraft and he was joined at Faulkner Bronze Company by other former Guildsmen, John Webster and A. E. Williams.

Also at Faulkner Bronze was Spencer Humphrey, known for his repousse work, and designers, Bert Harvey and Anne Grisdale Stubbs who was their star designer.

The firm became Jesson Birkett & Co in 1904 when Fred Faulkner retired.

The firm continued to make the most exquisite copper and mixed metal inkwells, cigarette boxes and light fittings, often using older Richard Llewellyn Rathbone designs.

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