Lot 1577
  • 1577

RARE MOLDED AND GILDED COPPER MAN WITH A CIGAR RIDING A 'BONESHAKER' BICYCLE, ATTRIBUTED TO V. BALDWIN, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1890

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • copper
  • Height 24 in. by Length 56 in. by Depth 5 in.

Provenance

C.H. Moses, Ashtabula, Ohio, October, 1974

Literature

Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz, A Gallery of Weathervanes and Whirligigs, (E.P. Dutton & Co., New York), 1981, fig. 98.

Condition

Spokes and some gilding restord.
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