Q: My grandmother gave me a pair of heavy brass bookends years ago. They are shaped like cocker spaniels. Around the neck of one is a tag that says ‘McClelland Barclay, Creator of the Fisher Body girl and celebrated illustrator for Cosmopolitan, has now earned world fame as a sculptor.’ The other side of the tag identifies the piece as one ‘created in his own studio.’
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