Rare Molded Sheet Copper and Zinc Steam Pumper and Horses Weathervane

Description:

Rare Molded Sheet Copper and Zinc Steam Pumper and Horses Weathervane, Cushing & White, Waltham, Massachusetts, c. 1870s, patterned in meticulous detail after an Amoskeag steam pumper with boiler, engine and pumps on a four-wheel carriage with driver and fireman at the back with cast zinc heads, the horses with reins and bridles, on a tubular base, weathered verdigris surface, (minor imperfections),lg. 49, ht. 19 1/2, dp. 11 in.

Provenance: Descended in a Massachusetts family.

Literature: For a discussion of a similar Cushing & White steam pumper weathervane see Myrna Kaye, Yankee Weathervanes (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1975),pp. 127-128.
Estimate $30,000-50,000


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