Crane & Breed Casket Company Bulldog Paperweight

Item Details

An original paperweight from Cincinnati’s Crane & Breed Casket Company. This charming paperweight has a deep bronze finish and is shaped like a resting bulldog. It is marked to the bottom "The Crane & Breed Manufacturing Company".

Crane & Breed was started in the 1850s after acquiring a patent by a man named Almond Dunbar Fisk, who is credited with creating the first form-fitting, airtight metal casket. After his untimely death, Fisk’s family sold his patent to what would become Crane & Breed Casket Company. This paperweight, and others like it, were promotional items for the company, as samples of their fine metalwork.

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17CIN188-176