Brass Door Stopper"Early XX century

Hi
Everyone.
Here what i found at my local GW on Friday, beautiful Brass Door Stopper.
This Door stopper was made in cast brass, at first look i don't see any maker name on it, this represanting a very colorful basket of tulip red and yellow with green foliage, all this with a nice handle for carrying it here and there, this is a beautiful of piece of americana metalware.This stand 9"1/2 tall by 5"1/4 at the base and 8" at the larger point.

Thanks for Viewing
Alan

Ever since the first door was created, it is likely that human beings have understood how to use an object or device to keep it open. Heavy stones or bricks or metal cans or chunks of wood all work to prevent a door from closing. It was Dec. 10, 1878, that a person was given credit as the inventor of what is commonly known as the "door stop" or "door stopper."

24 NOVEMBER, 2014 - 01:26 APRILHOLLOWAY
Object used as door stop identified as rare 3,500-year-old ceremonial dagger----- Picture 4
An object pulled up by a plow in a field and used to prop open an office door has now been identified by archaeologists as an extremely rare and valuable Bronze Age ceremonial dagger, known as a dirk, one of only six found in the whole of Europe.
According to a news report in Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, the artifact was first dug up more than a decade ago by a landowner in East Rudham, Norfolk, but not realising its significance, he used the relic as a door stop. It even came close to being tossed into a skip bin.
The dirk weighs 1.9kg (4lb) and is made from bronze, consisting of nine-tenths copper (most likely from Wales), and one-tenth tin (believed to be from Cornwall). The dagger had been deliberately bent when it was made, indicating that it was never intended to be used as a weapon but rather had a ceremonial role. Straightened out, it would be 68cm long.
Only five other Bronze Age dirks have been found in Europe, including the well-known Oxborough Dirk, found in 1988 and now on display in the British Museum.

The Oxborough dirk. Credit: British Museum
Like the newly-identified Rudham Dirk, the Oxborough Dirk was also an accidental find. “A man walking in woods near Oxborough literally stumbled across this dirk in 1988. It had been thrust vertically into soft peaty ground nearly 3,500 years ago, but erosion had exposed the hilt-plate, which caught his toe,” writes the British Museum.
The Oxborough Dirk was similarly never intended for use as a weapon. “The edges of the blade are very neatly fashioned, but deliberately blunt and no rivet holes were ever provided at the butt for attaching a handle in the customary manner. The dirk was evidently never intended to be functional in any practical way. Instead, it was probably designed for ceremonial use, or as a means of storing wealth,” the British Museum adds.
The four other dirks were found in continental Europe – two from the Netherlands and two from France. All six Bronze Age dirks are so similar in their style and execution, that it is believed they were all made in the same workshop.

The newly identified Rudham Dirk has now been purchased by Norfolk Museum Services for £41,000, and is on display in Norwich Castle Museum. Sophie Cabot, president of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, said: “We’re really excited - it would have been a great shame if we’d have lost it.”