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A New Dimension of Tradition: Important American Folk Art, Proceeds of the Sale to Benefit a New Folk Art Initiative at the Museum of Replica Handbagss, Boston

A New Dimension of Tradition: Important American Folk Art, Proceeds of the Sale to Benefit a New Folk Art Initiative at the Museum of Replica Handbagss, Boston

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1430. VERY RARE CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED GIRAFFE PULL-TOY, PROBABLY PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1850-80.

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VERY RARE CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED GIRAFFE PULL-TOY, PROBABLY PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1850-80

No Reserves

Auction Closed

January 25, 10:08 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

VERY RARE CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED GIRAFFE PULL-TOY, PROBABLY PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1850-80


Height 36 in. by Length 12 in. by Depth 7 in.


Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts.

Two similar giraffe pull-toys are illustrated in Robert Bishop, American Folk Sculpture (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1974) p. 352, plate 661, and Beatrice B. Garvan, The Pennsylvania German Collection (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982) p. 86, plate 6.