Cigar Store Figures were originally used as trade signs.  Today there are estimated to be only 600 - 800 of these figures in existence dating from 1850-1910 period, during which the quality of production of the carved wood sculptures was at its highest...

Read "Notes on Cigar Store Figures" by George P. Viener  

		MJT001 Cigar Store Indian by Julius Theodore Melchers	ANO161 Minnie Indian by Anonymous