Help ID Brass Devices-Andirons?

Hi Folks-
May I pick your brains once again? What are these brass devices? They're a pair. Heavy, measuring approximately 7-1/2" by 6-1/2" by 5-1/2". No identifying marks. They don't look like andirons I know but some research shows some different designs from the usual. Anybody know? Thanks a lot.

 

whatever they r , they're nice !!!!!

 

No idea, but they're sweet. Fire dogs of some kind?

 

I doubt they're fire-dogs...or otherwise meant to suffer flame. If the pair in the first pic were place-changed, so the space between were high side to high side, they would be able to support a modest pile of small firewood stacked into that space.

 

I'm liking fire dogs.....!

 

They could be fire iron rests.

 

Have any of you seen brass used IN a fireplace, where it's subjected to the intense heat of burning wood (or coal)?

I haven't...an' I've been using wood for heating my home for almost 50 years.
Brass won't take that oxidizing heat...it will deteriorate rapidly an' irrevocably.
Brass Fire Dogs? Ain't no such thing!

 

What are fire iron rests?

 

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Ah! Got it, Komo...thanks!