AMERICAN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

A similar weathervane appears as No. 79 in a reproduction of the Harris & Co., Boston, Mass., trade catalogue in Miller, The Art of the Weathervane (Exton, Pa., 1984), p. 157, fig. 28. The Harris scroll and hand weathervane measured approximately 36 inches long and was available for $14.50. J. W. Fiske of New York City also produced a scroll and hand weathervane in five different sizes from 3 feet to 5 feet long, and ranging in price from $18 to $55 (see J. W. Fiske 1893 (Princeton, 1971 reprint), p. 124, Nos. 153-156). A Cushing & White version of the same is illustrated at the bottom left of the trade catalogue page published between 1865 and 1872 from the Shelburne Museum in Klamkin, Weathervanes: The History, Manufacture and Design of an American Folk Art (New York, 1973), p. 30.