American Furniture & Decorative Arts

83. Gilt-copper and Zinc Peacock Weather Vane, America, late 19th/
    early 20th century, full-body figure with embossed and corrugated
    sheet copper tail, zinc underbody and portion of legs, no stand, old
    weathered gilt surface with verdigris, (one section of corrugated tail
    loose but retained, seam separations), ht. 17, lg. 32 1/2 in.
    $1,500-2,500

84.

Molded Gilt Copper Leaping Stag Weather Vane, Cushing & White,

Waltham, Massachusetts, late 19th/early 20th century, full-body

figure, the surface with vestiges of gilding, yellow sizing and traces of

verdigris, no stand, (minor seam separation on hind leg, gilt loss), ht.

25, lg. 30 in.

Literature: A similar example of a leaping stag weather vane by

Cushing & White is illustrated in The Art of the Weathervane, by Steve

Miller, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Pennsylvania, 1984, p. 53.

$3,000-5,000

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