18th / 19th Century
Possibly English folk art or ‘Sailor Art’, each individually carved as characters including a monk, a pair of standing female and male figures, a judge, a grinning figure and four others, some with inset glass eyes, the female figure, 26 cm high
Estimate: | £800 - £1,200 |
Hammer price: | £750 |
PROVENANCE:
These figures have belonged to the vendor’s family since at least the 1920’s and were kept at the family estate in Beetham, Cumbria until it was sold in 2004.