Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
An American Flying Steeple Chase Horse Trade Sign, circa 1890
No reserve
Lot Closed
January 25, 08:18 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
paint-decorated pine, tin, and iron
height 17 in. by width 39 in.
double-sided with applied sheet metal ears; together with projecting wall mount.
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George Blacker, Haddam, Connecticut.
Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut;
Sam Herrup, Sheffield, Massachusetts.
Sam Herrup advertisment, Magazine Antiques (October 1991), 553;
Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 292, fig. 481.
This "Flying Horse" weathervane is a wooden, home-made rendition of the molded copper "Flying Steeplechase Horse" weathervane manufactured by A.L. Jewell & Co., Waltham, Massachusetts from 1852-1867. The weathervane was found in a barn in Moodus, a section of Haddam, Connecticut, where it had been placed after it blew down from the barn during a hurricane in 1938.
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