Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(ART--BLACK MEMORABILIA.) "Jim" from Hucklebery Finn (supplied title.) Plaster of Paris piece, with hand-painted surface; professional repair to one leg at the knee; "B B" and the numbers "4914" written by hand into the plaster underneath the "belly." 8 x 3-1/2 inches. Np, circa 1900
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A beautifully crafted piece, quite probably modeled after Jim, the runaway slave who joined Tom Sawyer on his trip down the Mississippi. Variations on the character of Jim were popular in the last decades of the 19th century.