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Folk Art | Cigar Store Figures Collection
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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 at the Outsider Folk Art Gallery Minnie Indian by Anonymous | ANO161 | Carved Wood, Original Paint | 48 x 18 x 18 in. (121.9 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm) at the Outsider Folk Art Gallery
 
 
MJT001
Cigar Store Indian by Julius Theodore Melchers
ANO161
Minnie Indian by Anonymous