A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF GEORGE L. FOX AS HUMPTY DUMPTY

George Washington Lafayette Fox was an actor and pantomimist known for his clown roles, particularly the character of Humpty Dumpty. He often wore a fox medallion on the chest of his costumes as seen in the present lot. For further information and a similar example see Ralph Sessions, The Shipcarvers’ Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, 2005), pp. 168-171.