In an earlier post we looked at the owl bookends on the I Love Lucy set. The were  identified as Vienna Cold Painted Bronze bookends like those seen on Etsy HERE.  Since that post I came  across another pair quite like them. They have the heavy stone/marble base and are painted metal but the metal appears to be cast iron on the spots where some paint was missing.

See the Borghese Owl Bookends on Etsy (US) and another pair on eBay this week.

The most expensive are the Vienna pair but the others work well as less expensive substitutes. I got a Borghese pair and am tempted to try to repaint them to look like the Austrian pair after watching the video below on how to paint a marble effect for the base.