Vintage Israeli Brass & Green Enameled “Farmer Verde Patina” Bookends Mid-20th C

Vintage Israeli Brass & Green Enameled “Farmer Verde Patina” Bookends – Mid-20th Century

Add a touch of elegant history to your bookshelf with this striking pair of Israeli brass bookends, measuring approximately 5″ tall × 3¼″ wide × 4″ deep (base depth), and weighing roughly 1 lb 4 oz for the pair.

Each bookend features a richly patinated brass relief of a figure harvesting grain—an evocative motif in mid-century Israeli decorative art, celebrating the land, its labour, and harvest. In Jewish tradition, the land’s produce—particularly wheat and barley—is deeply symbolic: for example, one source notes that wheat “represents … the foundation of human existence, the bread of life, and kindness (chesed).

Moreover, agricultural imagery in early Israeli art was often used to express the Zionist ideal of land renewal and connection to the soil.

On the front of each bookend is a bold stamped mark reading “Israel”, and one includes the same in Hebrew.