PROBABLY MADE BY M.J. SEELIG FOR W. M. DEMUTH & CO. MANUFACTURERS, NEW YORK, LATE 19TH CENTURY

For similar examples, see Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 2001, lot 151 and sold for $126,750; Morphy's Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania, 5 April 2008, lot 670 and sold for $207,000; Frederick Fried, Artist's in Wood: American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures and Circus Wagons (New York, 1970), fig. 2a.