A Rare c.1900 Papier-Mâché Tobacconists’ Indian ‘Black Boy’ Advertising Shop Window Display Figure sub-Curios The primitive construction

The primitive construction

The original water within has now reduced to about two centimeters deep due to natural evaporation over more than a century and what would have been the snow chips are now remnants of dirt

the larger for pens

a Dutch East Indiaman that sank off Jakarta around 1751

survive from the second half of the nineteenth century and most likely from the third quarter

A Rare c.1900 Papier-Mâché Tobacconists’ Indian ‘Black Boy’ Advertising Shop Window Display Figure sub-Curios The primitive constructionOrigin: English Period: Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 15 Height: 21 inches Width: 8. 5 inches (at base) Depth: 3. 5 inches (at base) The painted papier mch advertising figure designed to be displayed in a shop window, probably to advertise tobacco, modelled as a young negro youth in white shorts with agog expression, his arms held out before him (probably once holding a pipe or plaque), and with three red indian feathers as a head dress