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CONTINENTAL CERAMIC FIGURAL HUMIDORS, LOT OF THREE, comprising one bust-form example depicting a mustachioed gentleman wearing a grey suit and smoking a cigar, one example featuring a rotund man with his right hand raised to the corner of his mustache and having a "X" bandage to the left side of his face, and one grinning man wearing a feathered hat and blue necktie. Marks to underside include impressed "WS&S" and various incised or impressed numerals. Wilhelm Schiller & Sohn, Obergrund, Bohemia; and others. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. 11 1/2" HOA.
Literature: Parallels Horowitz - Figural Humidors, Mostly Victorian, bust p. 104, fig. 464.
Man with feathered hat having some minor flakes/chips to bottom rim and possible paint touch-ups; bust having flake to hat, restoration to cigar, bottom with a hairline to back and a minor loss, and probable paint touch-ups; figure with right hand raised to mustache having loss of middle part of cane, a chip to bottom interior rim, and possible paint touch-ups.
From the collection of Allen Gurst, Delray Beach, FL.