FINE AND RARE CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED WOOD BUFFALO INSURANCE COMPANY PLAQUE, NEW YORK STATE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

FINE AND RARE CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED WOOD BUFFALO INSURANCE COMPANY PLAQUE, NEW YORK STATE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

depicts several symbols of 19th Century industry, occupation and abundance, including clasped hands, smoking factories and buildings, a locomotive, anvil, plow, scroll, caduceus and a cornucopia.

Diameter 29 ¾ in.

Condition Report:
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Provenance:
David Wheatcroft Antiques, Westborough, Massachusetts, September 4, 2007.