George P. Ide & Co of Troy New York Brass Store Display Rack Topper. Manufactured somewhere around the turn of the century. Manufactured by Barlow MFG. Company "Store and Window Display Fixtures", Holyoke Mass. Measurements are in the photos.
Someone at sometime took a grinder to the back of it to see what it was made of (?). I would have used a magnet! But it does not affect the front "Money" side of it!
Here's a history of the Ide family associated with the company:
(VIII)
George Peck Ide, son of William and Sally (Carpenter) Ide, was born at Corinth,
Saratoga county. New York, February 28, 1836, died at Troy, New York, March 3,
1907. After receiving a practical education he engaged in agricultural pursuits
on his father's farm. He remained a farmer until reaching legal age, when he
quickly absorbed the details of collar manufacture, and in 1865, at the age of
twenty-nine years, began business for himself with a partner, S. V. R. Ford.
Samuel N. Ide was admitted in 1867, and in 1878 the original firm dissolved to
be reorganized by George P. Ide, James N. Ide, F. B. Twining, and Charles E.
Bruce, as George P. Ide, Bruce & Company, a firm which in 1884 became
George P. Ide & Company, under which name it became known to a world-wide
patronage. In 1920 the firm was incorporated under the same name.
For
twenty-five years George P. Ide was president of the Manufacturers' Bank of
Troy, was vice-president of the Security Trust Company, and director of the
Security Safe Deposit Company of Troy, and of the Adirondack Trust Company of
Saratoga, New York. He was president of the Troy Telephone & Telegraph
Company, the American District Telegraph Company, and of the Magnetic Ore
Separator Company. He was a director of the United Traction Company, Hudson
River Telephone Company, Troy Gas Company, Troy and West Troy Bridge Company,
was a trustee of Samaritan Hospital, and closely identified with Troy's
progress in other lines. He was one of the founders of the Park Club, owned
many trotting horses and was very fond of driving them. In politics he was a
Republican, but never accepted an office.
George
Peck Ide married (first), in 1863, Sarah R. Marshall, daughter of Alba
Marshall, who died leaving an only son, Alba Marshall, of further mention. He
married (second) Mary Ella Savage, and to this marriage the following children
were born: Herbert Savage, of further mention; A. Harris; George P., Jr.;
Caroline, married Albert E. Cluett, of Troy, New York; and Edith G., married
Joseph O. Eaton, of Cleveland, Ohio.
(IX)
Alba Marshall Ide, son of George P. and Sarah R. (Marshall) Ide, was born in Troy,
New York, October 2, 1866. He received his early education in the public
schools of Troy and then completed his preparations for an active career by
taking courses in Troy Academy and in Mount Anthony Seminary, at Bennington,
Vermont. When his academic training was completed, he at once became associated
with the George P. Ide & Company manufacturing concern, and on December 1,
1889, when he was twenty-three years of age, he became a partner in that large
and well-known enterprise. Since that date he has been continuously connected
with this great Troy firm, and on February 1, 1920, when the business was
incorporated, he was elected vice-president. He is known as a man of large
business ability and in addition to his responsibilities in connection with the
George P. Ide & Company concern, he is also vice-president and a member of
the board of directors of the Manufacturers' National Bank, of Troy, a director
of the Security Trust Company, a member of the board of trustees of the Troy
Gas Company, a member of the board of directors of the Boston & Maine
railroad, and he is also an active member of the official boards of several of
the benevolent and educational institutions of the city of Troy. Politically
Mr. Ide gives his support to the principles and the candidates of the
Republican party, in the affairs of which he takes an active part. He is
president of the Rensselaer County Republican Club, has been delegate or
alternate to the last five national Republican conventions, and is one of the
leaders of the party in his county. In 1909 he was elected presidential elector
for the Twenty-second Congressional District, and served as secretary of the
Electoral College. He is widely known and highly esteemed both as a business
man of exceptional ability and as a publicspirited citizen, who is always ready
to contribute generously of his time and means for the public good. He is a
member of the Troy Club and of the Mount Anthony Country Club, and is an
attendant of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church.