SOLID BRASS 12" TALL PINEAPPLE - $125 (Burlington, WI)

　　Here is a chance to obtain a large solid brass and vintage pineapple. Use it for candy, potpourri or just on the table or shelve. The pineapple measures 12" top to bottom (not 9.5") and is 6" at the widest point.

　　The pineapple has served as a symbol of hospitality and warm welcome through the history of the Americas.

　　In colonial America, hostesses would set a fresh pineapple in the center of their dining table when visitors joined their families in their homes.

　　The pineapple, then, symbolized the warmest welcome a hostess could extend to her guests. If the visitors spent the night, they would be given a bedroom with a bed in which pineapples had been carved on either the bedposts or the headboard.

　　Through the present day, the pineapple became a familiar symbolic image of welcome, good cheer, and warmth and affection between all who dwell inside the home.