Fireman Whirligig - SOLD
American, c. 1880
Carved wood with original paint
Height 9 inches

Sporting a black and white stripped painted Fireman's hat and a double-breasted coat with carved collar and incised buttons and white trousers, this Fireman is ready for duty. The Fireman is a desirable and rarely encountered form in American folk art whirligigs.

Provenance:
James Kronen, New York
The Kahn Collection, part one, Northeast Auctions, August 3, 2003, lot186

Literature:
Illustrated in Weathervanes and whirligigs, by Ken Fitzgerald, 1977, p. 177.

Note:
A virtually identical example by the same hand was in the collection of the Late Stewart E. Gregory, Sotheby Parke Bernet, January 1979, lot 8.

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