They specialized in metal art and maintained a staff of artists and sculptors to craft their metal art objects ("Nouveau" metal art) which included clocks, bookends, statues, metal cases, candelabras and some silver-plated utensils. Their original items were signed with the initials "JB" on each pieces. Many JB objects are sold at auctions: http://www.chs.org/bookends . Older residents of Brideport can probably find at least one JB object in their house.
In the early 1950's the Jennings Brothers Manufacturing Company went out of business and the art object casts were purchased by another company in Philadelphia, PA. They used the original JR casts to manufacture replicas which are cheaper versions of the original JR items sold at art auctions.
One of the items which the Jennings Brothers produced was a small-scale version of a famous sculpture by Cyrus Dallin of "Massasoit". This item was owned by the Medicine Man Gallery: http://www.medicinemangallery.com/collection/deceased,-other/c/Dallin-1861%252D1944,-Cyrus-E/1/Jennings-Brothers--Reproduction-of-Cyrus-Dallins-(1861%252D1944)-Massasoit . The following is a JB clock design from the era 1900-1910:
[NOTE: This is simply one of the blog posts. If you have questions about the value
of any Jennings Brothers items, you have to ask an appraiser. I am not an appraiser.]
