WEATHERVANES

WEATHERVANES

12/20/2012

FISKE WEATHERVANE


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Late 19th century, probably by the Fiske or Westervelt Company. This unique zinc piece is all original including 1 bullet hole. Museum mounted 18 across x 21 ht. Antiques and Fine Art is the leading site for antique collectors, designers, and enthusiasts of art and antiques. Horse And Rider Weathervane Ethan Allen type horse and rider weathervane. Running Horse Weathervane Running horse weathervane in yellow paint. Running Horse Weathervane Running horse weathervane in verdigris patina. Unusual cast zinc rooster weathervane with old paint. Scroll to Top. Photo of a pin. Thumbnail of Karen Key. Embed Pin on Your Blog. The mold for this weathervane was created by Joseph Fiske some time after he opened his factories in New York and Massachusetts between 1858 and 1861. Rare Oversize Original Gilded Banner Weathervane. If we wished to reproduce the missing part, is this a standard pattern we could copy off another weathervane. Deacon Shem Drowne was the first documented American weather vane maker who created the famous grasshopper vane on top of the Faneuil Hall in Boston.

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Antique j.w.fiske eagle, gilded copper, late 1800s, 16.5 x 15.5. Antique us federal eagle weathervane. Key books are Art of the Weathervane by Steve Miller (1984: Schiffer Publishing) and Weathervanes: The History, Manufacture and Design of an American Folk Art by Charles Klamkin (1973: Hawthorne Books). Likely made this molded copper Horse Jumping Through Hoop weather vane, 1852-1867. A Molded Copper Black Hawk Running Horse Weathervane, a full bod form with a molded head, mane, and tail. W Fiske and Company (active 1870-1893), New York. Antique 18thc French Folk Art Primitive Copper Rooster Weather Vane NR. Retaining a beautiful surface with traces of gold. The church has a brass cockerel weathervane, which was made by famed coppersmith Shem Drowne in 1821 for the New Brick Church, known as the Cockerel Church, on Hanover Street, Boston and was purchased for the Cambridge church in 1873. Redesigned in 2002, the galleries of the Stagecoach Inn, in addition to weathervanes, house cigar store figures, trade signs, ships carvings and folk painting. Having the weathervanes evenly divided between the two locations gets visitors to different ends of the museum campus, said the curator. Mounted on a weather vane, a bronze eagle once spread his majestic wings from high atop the cupola of the old Rosland Hotel.


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Mixed media with photograph on Plexiglas, coconut palms, felt, acrylic, and wood. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Purchase with David C Driskell African American Art Acquisition Fund, 2006. Egan succeeded in trimming his holdings to four weathervanes at an August 2006 Northeast Auctions sale that saw a circa 1882 copper steam train weathervane bring in $1.2 million. W Fiske Company, Fire Engine weather vane, New York, New York, 1880-1895, copper, brass, zinc, iron, metal, in Stagecoach Inn Gallery. Maker unknown, Pisces weather vane, New York, 1850-75, painted metal. Original Vintage Rare John Deere Weather Vane, John Deere Weathervane. Lightning Rod Pendant Hangar Brass New Production Weathervane Weather Vane. WEATHER VANE 3D COPPER DOG WEATHERVANE WITH FREE ROOF MT. Vintage Folk Art Pig Weathervane From Estate. VINTAGE BLACK CAST ALUMINUM ROOSTER DIRECTIONAL WEATHERVANE. So it was that every city, village, and farm had its own weathervane (also called a weather vane, weathercock, wind vane) perched atop the highest building, to show people the direction the wind was coming from.


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Whirligig Creations from yard sale finds. A running horse weather vane by J.W. A 19th-century cast-iron Neptune sculpture attributed to J.W. A historic period walnut campaign desk. A heavily carved figural oak dining room table with eight chairs. And a French inlaid commode with figural dore bronze mounts. Originally created as a weathervane for the second Madison Square Garden building in New York City, Diana was installed in the Museums Great Stair Hall upon her arrival at the Museum, where she still greets visitors today. Unusual cast zinc rooster weathervane with old paint. Originally pinned by Susan E onto OBJECTS. Scroll to Top. Photo of a pin. Picture of Susan. I love being a weather vane for the skate community. Thats why our opinion is so much more important than anyone else in the world.


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Everybody tells us everything--theres a confessional in this store. Were also building one on our new website, where anybody can tell us anything and itll stay top secret. Whitefield is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, USA, in the White Mountains Region. The population was 2,306 at the 2010 census. Situated on the northern edge of the White Mountains, Whitefield is home to the Mount Washington Regional Airport and the White Mountains Regional High School. Modeled after Ethan Alien, one of the great racehorses of the 1970s, and originally gilded, it was one of several vanes listed for sale in the catalog of the Fiske company, a New York manufacturer, and was made sometime during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Copper Rooster Weather Vane In 19th-century America, seamen on sailing ships skimming along the New England coast could map a town by its weather vanes. American Weathervane from the Art of Americas Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Antique 20th Century Copper Horse Sulky Weathervane. The building design features a country home style with roof cupolas, portico, and a roof-top weathervane. Pillars, featuring field stone accents, frame the entry foyer which opens onto a hallway that includes a fireplace on the opposite wall.



The result is a very home-like and warm setting. In 1898, during a major lightning storm, the church was damaged by a lightning bolt that struck the north side of the spire, some 10 feet below the weathervane and tore away the entire north side of the spire. During that storm, many of the finest trees in town were destroyed by the high winds. A bastion is visible at the corner, topped with a weathervane. Dick Ramsey and Charles McLaughlin sit on horseback outside the Fiske Studio in Fort Yates, N.D. A flagpole and the roof of the Bourgeois House is also visible over the top of the palisade. Robert Bishop, A Gallery of American Weathervanes and Whirligigs - lots of weather vane trivia, good photos and some vanes you wont find elsewhere.

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