MOLDED AND GILDED COPPER 'COD' WEATHERVANE , J.W. FISKE & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1890 |

Sanford Smith, New York.

Boca Raton, Florida, Florida Atlantic University, Ritter Art Gallery, Two Centuries of American Folk Art: 19th & 20th Century Masterworks from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Marcus, (Exhibition sponsored by Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Florida), March 1-April 7, 1984;
Vero Beach, Florida, Florida Center for the Arts, Two Centuries of American Folk Art: 19th & 20th Century Masterworks from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Marcus, September 7-November 16, 1986;
Coral Gables, Florida, The Metropolitan Art Center, American Folk Art: The Folk Art Center of the Americas,  November, 1986;
West Palm Beach, Florida, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Selection of 19th & 20th Century American Weathervanes from the Collections of The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. and Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Marcus, April-June, 1989.

Steve Miller; The Art of the Weathervane, (Exton, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd: 1984), pg. 79.

Overall fine condition. Wear, discoloration and bends to the metal commensurate with age and use. Together with a later metal stand.
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