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The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin

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CERAMIC BASEBALL SYRUP<br />

DISPENSER, CIRCA 1910<br />

inscribed Fan-Taz, Drink of the “Fans” and A<br />

Pennant Winner. Pumping components not<br />

original.<br />

Height 15 ½ in. by Depth 9 ¾ in.<br />

PROVENANCE<br />

Robert Edward Auctions, Watchung, New<br />

Jersey, Baseball Cards, Memorabilia &<br />

Americana Auction, May 2, 2009, lot 1115.<br />

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Dispensers such as this were common sights<br />

in drugstores, general stores, and ice cream<br />

parlors during the early 1900’s and were used<br />

by “soda jerks” to pump out the syrup when<br />

filling a soda order.<br />

$ 800-1,200<br />

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SPHERE LOUPE DE THUAL,<br />

JEAN CLAUDE LAMBERT,<br />

FRANCE<br />

Diameter 17 in.<br />

PROVENANCE<br />

Hôtel Sofitel Paris le Faubourg, rue Boissy<br />

d’Anglas, Paris.<br />

$ 800-1,200<br />

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AFTER WILLIAM HOWARD<br />

ROBINSON<br />

color print<br />

circa 1917<br />

Height 15 ¼ in. by Length 30 in.<br />

hand colored lithograph based on a painting by<br />

William Howard Robinson depicting Jim Driscoll<br />

winner of the Lonsdale Belt boxing against Joe<br />

Bowker.<br />

PROVENANCE<br />

Manfred Schotten Antiques, Buford, Oxon.<br />

$ 600-800<br />

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

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