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CONTINENTAL CERAMIC HUNTER FIGURAL HUMIDORS, LOT OF THREE, comprising one bust example depicting a figure with a monocle, feathered hat, and holding a rifle across his chest and two sitting examples with a rifle, including one grey-haired figure and one younger man wearing a hat. Marks to underside include impressed "JM", "BB" and various numerals. Bernard Bloch, Eichwald, Bohemia; Johann Maresch, Austria or Czechoslovakia; and other. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. 11 3/4" HOA.
Literature: Parallels Horowitz - Figural Humidors, Mostly Victorian, sitting figure on stump p. 86, fig. 386.
Bust mostly undamaged, except having a minor flake to top underside edge and possible paint touch-ups; grey-haired example having some failing restoration to hat brim on base; figure sitting on stump having a minor chip to underside of hat brim and a chip above right knee with paint touch-up.
From the collection of Allen Gurst, Delray Beach, FL.