EXCEPTIONAL 'FRIENDSHIP ENGINE HOUSE' POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED SHEET AND WROUGHT IRON FIREMAN WEATHERVANE, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, CIRCA 1850

Friendship Engine House, Alexandria, Virginia;

Harden de V. Pratt, Rhode Island and Virginia, 1930;

George Considine, Massachusetts;

Sotheby's, New York, Important American Folk Art from The Collection of the late Bernard M. Barenholtz, January 27, 1990, sale 5969, lot 1507;

America Hurrah, New York;

Private Collection, New York;

Olde Hope Antiques Inc., New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Jean Lipman, American Folk Art in Wood, Metal and Stone (New York: Pantheon Press, 1948), fig. 49;

Robert Bishop, American Folk Sculpture (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974), p. 266, fig. 495;

Maine Antique Digest: The Americana Chronicles, 30 Years of Stories, Sales, Personalities, and Scandals, ed. Lita Solis-Cohen, (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2004), p. 211-5.