Blenko

I checked a few old catalogs, and assuming your bookends are ~ 5 1/2" tall, they are item #434 and were first offered in 1952.  That same year they also came out with an identical pair which are hollow and apparently intended to also serve as a planter.  I assume Winslow Anderson was the designer.

Blenco - Fifty years ago we lived just down the road from Blenco foundries in West Virginia.  Even then I loved to go there to watch them blow the glassware, but the only things we ever bought were the heavy thumb print glasses.  Fresh out of graduate school and having two little ones, our $$ didn't stretch that far to buy decorative glass for the sake of decorative glass.

I have mentioned before a really lovely Scandinavian shop in St. Peter, Minnesota by the name of Swedish Kontur.  After our stint in beautiful West Virginia, we moved to St. Peter and for the first time really knew what hot and cold were...  We loved the shop and it carried then and still does Orrefor and other name brands of Scandinavian glassware (as wll as fabrics, jewelry, clogs, candles and I don't know what else now as it was years ago that we lived there.)  And yes, even though Orrefors is marked, labels were definately left on to impress.  Also see a lot of the Morgantown Decor line manufactured in the fifties that still carry their stickers and I always wonder if they have ever met a sink ful of Ivory dishwater.

When you find old things with their original sticker, it usually indicates that the original owner never used the item. It probably spent its life sitting in a cabinet, basement or attic. Many of these items were underappreciated wedding gifts that finally get rediscovered 50 years later in a thrift store, estate or garage sale. And, yippee for us collectors! ;-)