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The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin

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162<br />

VERY RARE STANDING<br />

ARTICULATED FIGURE OF<br />

UNCLE SAM, ATTRIBUTED TO<br />

MECHANICAL ADVERTISING<br />

COMPANY, BOSTON,<br />

MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1900<br />

with original paint, original cotton and wool<br />

clothing with brass button.<br />

Height 25 ½ in. by Width 7 in. by Depth 4 in.<br />

PROVENANCE<br />

John C. Newcomer, Harper’s Ferry, West<br />

Virginia;<br />

David A. Schorsch, Greenwich, Connecticut;<br />

Private Virginia Collection;<br />

David A. Schorsch - Eileen M. Smiles American<br />

Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut.<br />

A closely related example from the collection<br />

of Michael Del Castello is illustrated by Martha<br />

Longenecker in American Expressions of Liberty:<br />

Art of the People, By the People, For the People,<br />

(San Diego, CA: Minge International Museum,<br />

1996), p. 3.<br />

$ 10,000-20,000<br />

162<br />

176 SOTHEBY’S THE IMPORTANT AMERICAN FOLK ART COLLECTION OF STEPHEN AND PETRA LEVIN

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