COTSWOLD EWEPROBABLY BY L.W. CUSHING & SONS1865-1933 | Cotswold EweProbably By L.W. Cushing & Sons1865-1933

Giampietro American Art and Antiques, New Haven, Connecticut.

Myrna Kaye, Yankee Weathervanes, (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1975) p. 114;
Steve Miller, The Art of the Weathervane (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1984) p. 113;
Tom Geismar and Harvey Kahn, Spiritually Moving: A Collection of American Folk Art Sculpture (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998) cat. no. 29, illus. in color.

Old bullet hole, otherwise wear consistent with age and use. Traces of black paint to the surface. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Purchasers may pay for and pick up their purchases from any of our Americana Week sales taking place from January 17-20, 2019, at our York Avenue headquarters until the close of business on Sunday, January 20, 2019. After this time, all property (sold and unsold) will be transferred to our offsite facility, Crozier Fine Art, One Star Ledger Plaza, 69 Court Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102. Once property has been transferred from our York Avenue location, it will not be available for collection at Crozier Fine Arts until Friday, January 25, 2019. Crozier's hours of operation for collection are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday. Please note, certain items of property, including but not limited to jewelry, watches, silver and works on panel will remain at 1334 York Avenue. Invoices and statements will indicate your property's location. For more information regarding collection from our offsite facility, please visit sothebys.com/pickup.
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Soon after Stillman White, Leonard Cushing's original business partner, sold his share of the company to him in 1873, Cushing brought his two sons into the firm and gave it the name it would operate under until it closed its doors in 1933. The company, which had begun in 1867 when Cushing and White purchased the recently deceased A.L. Jewell's inventory and molds, became one of the most successful and long-lived of all weathervane-manufacturing enterprises.  Cotswold sheep, named after the Cotswold hills of southwestern England where they had become established by the 1500s, are "gentle giants" believed to have descended from long-wool sheep brought to Britain by the Romans. The breed was introduced in the United States in 1831 and had become the country's most popular domestic sheep by the time Cushing & White began making vanes.