Black-painted Cast Iron Gothic Hitching Post

Description:

Black-painted Cast Iron Gothic Hitching Post, Excel Manufacturing Company, Pottersville, New Jersey, second half 19th century, the tapering post with openwork quatrefoils and circles, marked "SOVEX METAL HITCHING POST, PAT APD FOR, EXCELL MFG CO. POTTERSVILLE NJ," with custom stand, ht. 66 1/4 in.

Provenance: The Phil and Bunny Savino Collection.

Literature: Illustrated and described in W. Douglas McCombs, ed., Horsing Around: 19th Century Cast Iron Hitching Posts, the Collection of Phil and Bunny Savino (Albany Institute of History and Art: Albany, 2008),p. 6.

Exhibitions: Horsing Around: 19th Century Cast Iron Hitching Posts, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, January 26-May 26, 2008.
A Flushing, New York, Collection
Estimate $800-1,200


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