SOLD Cigar Store Figures by Pendergast & Ware ~ 1953

Books : About Antiques : Cigar Store Indians

 

Pendergast, A.W. & W. Porter Ware. Cigar Store Figures in American Folk Art. [Chicago]: Lightner Publishing Corporation, 1953, Cloth As New xvi + 76 p. 67 ill. of Native American & other carved statuary. "Antiquarian John L. Morrison, cited by Pendergast in his 1953 book Cigar Store Figures, states that the first appearance of a cigar store Indian in America was in 1770  in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  By the latter half of the 19th Century the cigar store Indian was as much a symbol of the tobacco trade as was the barber pole to barber shops. Pendergast owned at least 200 figures during his lifetime."

Used, NM, retailing at several other sites on the net for $45 ~ this is an extra copy from my own library (I have a small collection of mostly countertop Indian antiques) ~

~ Buy with confidence from A.P.I.C. Member# 15408 ~ click on the thumbnail & scroll down the next page to see six enlarged views (any checkering effect due to a scanner defect & not present on this offering) & dimensions

Item ID: 3315

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SPECIAL i.e., not eligible for a discount in my current multi-buy sale.