Feb 27, 2003 - Sale 1961

Sale 1961 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BLACK MEMORABILIA.) Stump Speaker. Cast-iron piggy bank, 10x4 3/4x4 inches, most of the original paint remaining, exposed iron portions browned from age; with an articulated arm and jaw; appears to be inoperative. Np, circa 188-1900
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Depicts a well-dressed Black man with a stove-pipe hat, a carpet-bag at his side, standing on a platform which bears the words "Stump Speaker." It appears to be a jibe at the remaining Black members of the House of Representatives "stumping" for re-election. The Black Reconstruction representatives were effectively removed by the Democrats in the last decade of the 19th century.