PROBABLY AMERICAN, CIRCA 1875

Details

A CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED WOOD AND TIN BICYCLE RIDER WHIRLIGIG
PROBABLY AMERICAN, CIRCA 1875
21 in. high

Provenance

Collection of Harvey and Isobel Kahn, New Jersey
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Acquired from the above in 1994

Literature

Robert Bishop, American Folk Sculpture (New York, 1985), p. 371, no. 699.

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