A polychrome wood model of a butcher's shop, late 19th/early 20th century

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A polychrome wood model of a butcher's shop, late 19th/early 20th century
showing the shop front with carcasses and joints of meat hung to the facade, with three figures beside their carving blocks, the windowed gallery above mounted with the Royal coat of arms, within a mahogany veenered and glazed shadow box -- 20 x 28in. (51 x 71cm.) overall
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Similar examples of this model have been sold in these rooms; 8 November 1995, The Judkyn/Pratt Collection of British Folk Art, lot 52; 30 March 1995, The Camma Bach Collection, lot 824; and 24 October 1991, lot 73.
Other comparative examples are illustrated in James Ayres British Folk Art, Barrie and Jenkins, London 1976, plate 30; and Edward H.Pinto Treen and Other Wooden Bygones,Bell and Hyman, London 1969, plate 219.

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