EXCEPTIONAL SWELLED-BODIED COPPER AND CAST-ZINC STANDING HORSE 'LADY SUFFOLK' WEATHERVANE, J. HOWARD & CO., WEST BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1854-1867

Skinner's, Inc., Bolton, Massachusetts, October 28, 1989, lot 263.

This remarkable Howard weathervane is one of the most dynamic forms the firm produced. Its design is based off the famous Lady Suffolk or "Old Gray Mare" of Long Island, was foaled in 1833 at Smithtown, New York on the farm of Carl S. Burr, Jr. She was a true champion Standardbred and went the first ever 2:30 mile at Hoboken, New Jersey, July 4, 1843, doing the mile in 2:29 1/2. She held records under saddle, to wagon and high-wheel sulky. A campaigner for sixteen seasons, Lady Suffolk was considered the "Queen of the Turf" until her death in 1855 in Bridgeport, Vermont.