A MOLDED COPPER RAM WEATHERVANE
Lot 196 Property from the Estate of Tipton "Tippy" S. Conrad

A MOLDED COPPER RAM WEATHERVANE

POSSIBLY W.A. SNOW & COMPANY, BOSTON 1850-1900

Closed21 January 2011

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USD 20,000

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A MOLDED COPPER RAM WEATHERVANE
POSSIBLY W.A. SNOW & COMPANY, BOSTON 1850-1900
24 in. high, 35 in. long

Descended in the Gulick family, Gulick Farm, Ely, Vermont, 1850
Steve Miller, New York, 1983

Specialist note

This full bodied Ram weathervane known as the "Ely, Vermont Ram" remained in situ on a barn on the Gulick family farm from the 1850s until November of 1982. It was then purchased by Tippy S. Huntly Conrad, wife of William Conrad, the actor of Beverly Hills, where it remained as a prized possession in their home.