NEW YORK, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Details

A CARVED AND PAINTED TRAIN CONDUCTOR FIGURE
NEW YORK, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
34 1/2 in. high

Provenance

Private Collection, Cape Cod
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Acquired from the above in 1995

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Lot Essay

With a slot in his coat and and internal channel with wire fittings running from his left hand to the base, this figure was fitted with a contraption possibly for the storage of coins. For a related example of a peddler with similar gesture see Robert Bishop, American Folk Sculpture (New York, 1985), p. 31, no. 34.

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