Lot 085 - Vintage Cast Metal Figural Monkey Business Card or Soap Dish Holder, 7" H

Lot 085 - Vintage Cast Metal Figural Monkey Business Card or Soap Dish Holder, 7" HA vintage cast metal figural holder in the form of a standing monkey with arms raised overhead, supporting a shallow rectangular tray with a cross hatched diamond pattern on the upper surface. The reverse of the tray is flat and undecorated with a recessed rectangular well, suggesting use as a business card or soap holder. The figure is detailed with incised fur texture throughout the body and limbs, with traces of green patina visible in the recessed

Some shells appear to have shifted slightly from their original positions

Pre-Auction Notes: Original paint and original patina

25" W x 7" H

" delivered before the City Council and citizens of Boston on the one hundred and thirteenth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

This heavy wooden bowling pin has been hand painted to depict a smiling duck face clown

The flooring

00 Reward Missing Boy" and featuring a photograph of James George wearing a suit and top hat

This Perko Wonder Junior features a tin body and very nice glass globe lens

and was frequently praised in newspaper accounts from 1900–1903 for his exceptional wire-walking and trick bicycling performances

Scientific Expert

and the fingertip ends feature copper-colored eyelets or bushings as made

The back page advertises various patent medicines from The American Remedy Co