Syroco Ornawood Vintage Collie and Shepherd Dog Portrait Wall Plaques - A Pair wooden mold with copper shield and woolen

with copper shield and woolen tunic

rendered in wonderfully bright colors and patterns and

ancient to modern

and then there is the child next to a totem pole

Syroco Ornawood Vintage Collie and Shepherd Dog Portrait Wall Plaques - A Pair wooden mold with copper shield and woolenIm pretty taken with these Syroco (Syracuse Ornamental Company) Ornawood (made from wood pulp) wall plaques, one a Collie and the other a German Shepherd. From what I understand, Syroco was founded in 1890 in Syracuse, New York, and was the first company to produce decorative molded wood pulp products with a hand carved look. These two I believe date from the 1930s or 40s, and I think it is the degree to which they take themselves seriously as