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Lot 41
A CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN PRINCESS TOBACCONIST FIGURE
PROBABLY DETROIT, MICHIGAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Closed3 October 2007
Price Realised
USD 25,000
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Specialist note
According to an article written in 1930 on the collection of Dudley E. Waters, this tobacconist figure is reputed to have come from a Northern Michigan cigar store. Lawrence F. Jessup, The Tobacconists Tribe of Treen, Antiques Magazine (September 1930), p. 232 fig. 2.