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Lot Essay
For a similar squirrel weathervane on branch support by L.W. Cushing and Sons, see Miller, The Art of the Weathervane (Exton, PA, 1984), p. 78.
For a carved pattern used in the production of squirrel weathervanes such as the example illustrated here, by Henry Leach (1809-1885) of Boston, see Hollander et al., American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York, 2001), p. 341, fig. 305.
For a carved pattern used in the production of squirrel weathervanes such as the example illustrated here, by Henry Leach (1809-1885) of Boston, see Hollander et al., American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York, 2001), p. 341, fig. 305.