HAND-FORMED BIRD-FORM TOY WHIMSY

Price Realized: $819.00
Sold Date: May 20, 2017
Lot #1

depicting a well-formed peacock or turkey with crimped tail feathers, raised on a crude multi-knop stem and applied sloping foot with rough pontil mark.

Item/Auction Attributes

colorless,
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and others.
1840-1880.

Undamaged.
4" H, 1 3/4" D foot.

Provenance: The Joan E. Kaiser Collection of Sandwich and related glass (Acc. #98.11).
Catherine A. Archer, Chatham, NJ.
Exhibited: Sandwich Glass Museum – "Antique Dolls and Glass Toys," 2014; and "Eggstravaganza," 2015.
$500.00
$800.00

Literature: Parallels Barlow/Kaiser – The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 5, p. 64, fig. 5114 and p. 65, fig. 5115.
HAND-FORMED BIRD-FORM TOY WHIMSY