$6,000
Molded Gilt Copper Peacock Weathervane, A. L. Jewell and Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1850-77, flattened full-body figure with embossed sheet copper tail and zinc feet, mounted on a copper sphere, no stand, (losses to crest and sphere), ht. 32 3/4, lg. 40 in. Literature: A similar example by A.L. Jewell and Company is illustrated in Steve Miller, The Art of the Weathervane (Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1984), p. 136.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03