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Mrs. Siddons as "Lady Macbeth" - 1840
71/2" high   A well colored figure of Mrs. Siddons  in the role of Lady Macbeth wearing a crown & an ermine-edged cloak over a long dress & holding a handkerchief in her hand.
Pugh:  E 7 - 18
Condition:  Professional restoration to left arm
Price:  $275

Glover & Vining as "Yourawkee & Wilkins" - circa 1837
71/4" high  A well modeled & colored group of Miss Glover & Mrs Vining as "Yourawkee" & "Peter Wilkins" from "Peter Wilkins" or "The Flying Indians" produced in London in 1827 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
Pugh:  E 24 - 49       Harding:  1161
Condition:  Professional repair to Vining's arm
Price:  $275
MacDonalds of Glencoe - circa 1850
10 1/4" high   A group of the MacDonalds of Glencoe showing Ian MacDonald, chief of the clan, attempting to defend his family from being massacred together with the whole Scottish clan in 1692.
Pugh E 133 - 270
Condition:  Professional restoration to arm & club
Price:  $275
King John
12 1/2" high      A well-colored & attractive figure of King John signing the Magna Carta seated in a tent with pages & flags on either side.
Pugh:  E 1 - 1(a)     Harding:  1048
Condition:  Professional restoration to finial on top of tent
Price:  $600
John Philip Kemble as "Hamlet" - circa 1852
11" high        A rare & well-colored titled Thomas Parr figure of John Philip Kemble playing "Hamlet" based on the Tallis Shakespeare Gallery engraving after Lawrence's portrait.
Pugh:  E 13 - 32     Harding:  1045 P
Condition:  Professional repair to hand, feather & neck
Price:  $850
T.D. Rice as "Jim Crow" - 1836
6 1/4" high       A rare & well-colored figure of the American actor, Thomas Dartmouth Rice, in the role of Jim Crow which he performed throughout the U.S.A. & at the Royal Surrey Theatre, London, England in 1833.
Pugh:  E 37 - 73      Harding:  1123
Condition:  Perfect
Price:  $450
T.D. Rice as "Jim Crow" - circa 1836
5 3/4" high       A rare & well-colored figure of the American actor, Thomas Dartmouth Rice, in the role of Jim Crow which he performed throughout the U.S.A. & at the Royal Surrey Theatre, London, England in 1833
Pugh:  E 37 - 73      Harding:  1123
Condition:  Perfect
Price:  $450
Jenny Lind as Alice in Meyerbeer's Opera - circa 1847
13 1/2" high    Very well colored, modelled, & titled ("Jenny Lind as Alice in Meyerbeer's Opera" in gilt script) figure of Jenny LInd with her arms around the pedestal of a Celtic cross after the lithograph published relating to her London part in Roberto il Diavolo in 1847
Pugh:   E80 - 158      Harding:  1330
Condition:  Professional restoration to Cross, arm & rear of base
Price:   $950
Winter's Tale (Jenny Marston as "Perdita" & Frederick Robinson as "Florizel") - circa 1852
12" high     Rare, well modelled & titled (Winter's Tale in indented capitals) figure in white & gilt after the engraving from Tallis' Shakespeare Gallery
Pugh:   E1A - 2       Harding:  1086
Condition:  Perfect
Price:   $325
Romeo & Juliet - circa 1852
10 1/2" high   Well colored Thomas Parr figure of Charlotte Cushman as Romeo & Susan Cushman as Juliet with verse quotation in transfer lettering on front.  After an engraving from Tallis' Shakespeare Gallery.
Pugh:  E1A-1    Harding:  1073
Condition:  Romeo's neck professionally restored
Price:   $750
 
Diana Vernon in La Zingara - circa 1850
13" high   Strikingly well colored & crisp figure of Diana Vernon, the actress based on the colored engraving
Pugh:  E131-268      Harding:  1039
Condition:  Professional restoration to the left hand
Price:   $425
 
Carlotta Grisi as Giselle - circa 1842
8 1/2" high   Well colored figure of the ballet dancer in the title role of the ballet, the first London performance of which was held at Her Majesty's Theatre on March 12, 1842
Pugh:  E68-133    Harding:  1279
Condition:  Perfect
Price:   $325
 
Ducrow & Woolford on Horseback - circa 184-
8 1/2" high  A rare figure of a pair of riders standing on a horse generally believed to be Andrew Ducrow & his wife Louisa Woolford
Pugh:  E68-131    Harding:  1359
Condition:  Perfect
Price:   $525

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