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Samuel Robb Carved Tobacciana Trade Sign
$69,000
£52,113.43
€60,199.11
CA$97,211.18
A$104,113.20
CHF 55,970.54
MX$1,264,515.70
NOK 707,215.05
SEK 647,507.96
DKK 449,797.38
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Tobacciana trade sign carved by Samuel Robb, New York, Circa 1885. Figure holds a knife and bundle of cigars with tobacco boxes. Retains original base. Total height from floor is 74". As found condition with no restoration, surface shows lots of age, thick old paint that has crazed and worn to bare wood in areas, typical tight crack in back runs from top of head to bottom of dress. On cast iron wheels. Base reads one side "Try our Havana Filler Cigars Our Own Make Magazines Cigarettes. The other side reads Magazines Cigarettes Tobacco Pipes Cigars Cigarettes.
74", Base 19 1/2" x 16" x 26".
Samuel Anderson Robb (c. 1851–1928) was an American sculptor, best known for his carved wooden figures for tobacco shops and circus wagons.
Robb was born in New York City, the son of a Scottish shipwright. He apprenticed to a shipbuilder (probably Thomas V. Brooks) for five years, then went to work for a wood-carver, making figures for tobacco shops, and attending night classes at the National Academy of Design and Cooper Union. After his apprenticeship, he worked for William Demuth carving tobacco figures. In 1876 he married Emma Jane Pelham and opened his own carving shop. After Emma died in 1878, Robb married Agnes Loudon in 1881, with whom he had four children. He subsequently left his family, however, and had no communication with them for seventeen years, when he encountered Agnes on the street and the family was reunited.
Robb's workshop was the largest in nineteenth-century New York City. His carvings ranged from traditional cigar store Indians to circus wagons and ventriloquist dummies. The wood used for figures, no matter what use they were put to, was carved from solid white pine logs, which were readily available locally, a soft wood that was easy to carve with hand tools and a relatively inexpensive wood specie. Robb often sourced reclaimed wood in three- to seven-foot sections of masts and spars from dismantled sailing ships that he purchased at spar yards in the maritime district.
He closed his workshop at 114 Centre Street in 1903, after completing a set of circus wagon carvings for Barnum
Bailey.
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- Dimensions:Height: 74 in (187.96 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1885
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Coeur d Alene, ID
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