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THBMcDonald Products Metal Bookends
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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About Auction
LiveJan 18, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Todd Warner Rhino Sculpture, a collection of art glass sculptures, modern furniture, Lalique, Kosta Boda, Parkwest Gallery artworks, and Coca-Cola collectibles. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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- Lot Description
McDonald Products Metal Bookends. Matching pair, label on bottom of one.
Size: 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
#8347 .
McDonald Products was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1930 by metalworker Edward McDonald, when he purchased the Serv-A-Light Company, a developer of smoker stands with attached battery-operated cigar lighters. With his background in metalworking, he expanded their development of a wide variety of ornamental smoking stands, pipe racks, ashtrays, floor stands, and a silent butler, which they marketed and sold primarily to gift shops. In 1934 McDonald put a small duck finger lever on top of his scissor-action ashtray, naming it the Duk-It Ashtray, and the novelty became their most well-known product. The duck icon developed from this went on to become the symbol for all McDonald Products, remaining an integral part of the logo to this day. In 1961 the company was sold to Adrian Bennett, and shifted its focus from gift shops to a more office-oriented product line. They also began to develop their own assortment of metal and plastic desk accessories, and branched out into non-smoking-related items. Over the next decade, ownership of McDonald Products changed hands several times, including a short stint as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Insilco Corporation, a Fortune 500 firm then headquartered in Meriden, Connecticut. In 1982 a group of McDonald Products executives acquired the company back from Insilco in a leveraged buyout, and in 1986 controlling interest was acquired by Smith Metal Arts, one of the longest and fiercest competitors, eventually leading to the formation of Smith McDonald Corporation in the 1990s. Since then they have almost completely shifted away from smoking products as market tastes and health concerns have arisen, although they still offer some of their most popular items that have been in demand since before the Second World War.
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BIDDER MUST ARRANGE THEIR OWN SHIPPING. Although SEA will NOT arrange shipping for you, we do recommend our preferred shipper Premier Shipping & Crating at info@premiershipment.com You MUST email them, please DO NOT CALLl. If you'd like to compare shipping quotes or need more options, feel free to contact any local Sarasota shippers. You can email any one of the shippers below as well. Be sure to include the lot(s) you won and address you would like it shipped to. Brennan with The UPS Store #0089 - 941-413-5998 - Store0089@theupsstore.com AK with The UPS Store #2689 - 941-954-4575 - Store2689@theupsstore.com Steve with The UPS Store #4074 - 941-358-7022 - Store4074@theupsstore.com Everett with PakMail - 941-751-2070 - paktara266@gmail.com
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5 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
