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The details of the bear and the lion are consistent with designs by Jennings Brothers.

They are not marked. The bear is a souvenir of Skyline Caverns in Virginia.

Weidlich Brothers

Weidlich Brothers Manufacturing Company operated in Bridgeport, Connecticut from

1901 until the 1950s. The brothers were Louis, Frank, and William. They produced a

wide variety of art metal ware much of which was silver-plated.

The two principle designers at Weidlich were Louis Weidlich and Alfred J. Flauder.

Between 1907 and 1933, Louis was granted more than a dozen design patents including

jewelry cases, cigarette dispensers, an inkwell and pin cushion combination, an incense

burner, a salt shaker, a table crumber and an electric perfumer (well ahead of the

makers of aromatherapy and plug-in odor eaters!). With Flauder, Louis obtained two

patents for manufacturing methods - one for lowering costs of die-making and one for

hollow ware.

Flauder was even more inventive with over 60 design patents to his credit from 1913 to

1948 while working with Weidlich. Alfred designed jewelry cases, salt & pepper

shakers, crucifix pedestals, candlesticks, a variety of spoons, a cigarette lighter,

perfumer and disinfectant units, clock cases, athletic trophies, and a

corkscrew

!

The two corkscrews at right have

the W-B mark of Weidlich

Brothers. The comic character on

the left is a souvenir of the 1939

New York World's Fair. Note how

the comic bellhop head is cast on

to the bottle opener top. The

corkscrew with milk can shape

sheath on the right was offered

with a set.