Rusty and Kate Donohue
Americana Antiques

Tobacconist Figure of an Indian
Kurtz Tobacco Store, Millville, NJ

Of carved ad painted wood, circa 1850's to 1860's.  Retaining its original carved plinth base and 50% to 70% of its original paint.

From a tobacco shop in Millville, NJ, owned first by Lewis Kurtz and later his son Charles.  Deaccessioned from the Merritt Museum, Douglasville, PA.

See pp. 20-21,
Artists in Wood, and p, 101 of Robert Looney's Old Philadelphia.

Size:  93" tall, including base.

Price:  $59,000

e-mail:  emmy@intercom.net

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