American Furniture & Decorative Arts

Description:

Airplane Weather Vane, America, 20th century, single propeller airplane composed of copper, zinc, iron and wood with verdigris and weathered wood surfaces with traces of gilt, zinc directionals, mounted on a turned wooden baluster supported on a black metal stand, total ht. 54 3/8, wd. 30 3/8, lg. 40 in.

Literature: This weather vane is illustrated in the book Heritage Above: A Tribute to Maine's Tradition of Weather Vanes, photographs and text by Marcia Burnell, 1991, Down East Books, Camden, Maine, p. 77.
Estimate $2,500-3,500

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