CLEMENTSPORT, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, 1820-1850

Details

A CARVED AND PAINTED PINE TRADE SIGN OF A GENTLEMAN
CLEMENTSPORT, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, 1820-1850
24 in. high, 15 in. wide, 2 ¼ in. deep

Provenance

The Collection of Jim and Susan Snowdon, Kentville, Nova Scotia
Ted and Carole Hayward, The Yankee Smuggler Antiques, Richmond, New Hampshire, August 1996

Literature

Richard Henning Field, Spirit of Nova Scotia: Traditional Decorative Folk Art 1780-1930 (Toronto, 1985), no. 85.

Exhibited

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Spirit of Nova Scotia, 1986.

Sale room notice

Please note this lot is now catalogued as Clementsport, Nova Scotia.

Please note, this lot is now offered not subject to a reserve.

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Lot Essay

This trade sign was discovered in the basement of the Ditmars’ house, a stage stop or road-house, in Clementsport, Novia Scotia (Richard Henning Field, Spirit of Nova Scotia: Traditional Decorative Folk Art 1780-1930 (Toronto, 1985), no. 85).

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