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A ZINC POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF AN 'INDIAN HUNTER'
Lot 454 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GARY DUBNOFF

A ZINC POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF AN 'INDIAN HUNTER'

WILLIAM DEMUTH (1835-1911), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1875

Closed21 January 2022

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A ZINC POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF AN 'INDIAN HUNTER'
WILLIAM DEMUTH (1835-1911), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1875
plaque on base stamped WM. DEMUTH & CO./ 501 BROADWAY NEW YORK
83 in. high

Specialist note

The "Indian Hunter" (no. 70) was advertised in Demuth’s brochure for $80. A copy of this brochure can be found in Fredrick Fried, Artists in Wood: American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures and Circus Wagons (New York, 1970), p. 53.