Sale 9052
New York, Park Avenue
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15 - 19 January 1999
Price realised
USD 1,495
Estimate
A PAINTED SHEET-IRON WEATHERVANE Probably American, 20th century The brown-painted silhouetted form depicting a leaping stag pursued by a hunter with raised rifle both standing on green-painted ground, on a rectangular base 14in. high, 33in. wide
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