Live Auction 18947In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides
A MOLDED GILT-COPPER AND CAST ZINC EAGLE WEATHERVANE
Lot 101 THE COLLECTION OF ABBY AND GEORGE O'NEILL

A MOLDED GILT-COPPER AND CAST ZINC EAGLE WEATHERVANE

ATTRIBUTED TO A.L. JEWELL & CO. OR THE BOSTON METAL-WORKERS COMPANY, MASSACHUSETTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 January 2021

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A MOLDED GILT-COPPER AND CAST ZINC EAGLE WEATHERVANE
ATTRIBUTED TO A.L. JEWELL & CO. OR THE BOSTON METAL-WORKERS COMPANY, MASSACHUSETTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY
30 ½ in. high, 39 ½ in. wide, 11 in. deep

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Similar models of weathervanes were made by both A.L. Jewell & Co. and the Boston Metal-Workers Company. See Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz, A Gallery of American Weathervanes and Whirligigs (New York, 1981), p. 51. no. 78 and Charles Klamkin, Weathervanes: The History, Design and Manufacture of an American Folk Art (New York, 1973), p. 88.