A CARVED AND PAINTED TOBACCO ADVERTISING FIGURE

A CARVED AND PAINTED TOBACCO ADVERTISING FIGURE

LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

modelled as a European looking man wearing a red and gold coloured hat, a black cloak and gold coloured waistcoat and holding a later clay pipe, with an iron suspension staple to his back and on a domed base

61cm high

Literature

Pinto (E H), Treen and other wooden Bygones, 1969, p. 412 for a discussion on carved and painted tobacco advertising figures and plates 436-440 for some other examples.