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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'HIGHLAND LASSIE'
Lot 457 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GARY DUBNOFF

A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'HIGHLAND LASSIE'

AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed21 January 2022

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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'HIGHLAND LASSIE'
AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
84 in. high

Specialist note

For an addtional example of the rare "Highland Lassie" form see Ralph Sessions, The Shipcarvers’ Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, 2005), p. 152.