(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) FOLK ART Runaways [supplied title]

Sale 2271 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 600

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)--FOLK ART. Runaways [supplied title.] Pair of hand-made figures, 8-1/2 inches high, dressed in various types of fabric, sewn over pieces of twigs; faces made of some sort of dark resinous material; both hold sacks, the man holds a walking stick, made from a twig. Np, circa 1850's-1900

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A highly unusual pair of folk figures, in the form of runaway slaves. Both are dressed in typical mid-nineteenth century style, she, with a calico apron over a long striped dress; he, wearing a shirt that looks like "home-spun" fabric; both are holding the type of sack typically shown in 19th-century depictions of runaway slaves. From a private collection.