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Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
August 12, 2018 10:00 AMCalender
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Yellow-painted Coupe Weathervane

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Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 3121MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 12, 2018 10:00AM

Description:

Yellow-painted Coupe Weathervane, probably southern Maine, early 20th century, sheet iron automobile with four wheels, driver, wire windscreen, and steering wheel, on a directional with scroll decoration, on turned and white-painted stand, lg. 14 in.

Provenance: David L. Davies, August, 1995.

Literature: Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz, A Gallery of American Weathervanes and Whirligigs (New York: Dutton, 1981),p. 100; and Robert Bishop and Jacqueline M. Atkins, Folk Art in American Life (Viking Studio Books, 1995).
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $2,000-3,000


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Keywords

Robert Bishop, David L. Davies, Jacqueline M. Atkins, Patricia Coblentz, Sybil Kern