Carved Totem Figure of Uncle Sam, Winston Churchill, and Joseph...

Carved Totem Figure of Uncle Sam, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin,
signed P. Stausholm, 1953.
Carved wooden totem with smiling Joseph Stalin sitting cross-legged on a globe held by Winston Churchill, who stands on the shoulders of a crouching Uncle Sam, mounted on a hardwood moneybox base, 10cm wide, 5cm deep, 45cm high (4 1/8in wide, 2 3/8in deep, 18 1/4in high).
Provenance
Hayes Antiques, Banner Elk, North Carolina.

Literature
Robert and Anne Levine, American History in Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection, (s.n.: Robert and Anne Levine, 2017), 92.