A Late 19thC Carved & Polychrome Painted Dummy Prop Head; Ex Harry Houdini; By Repute sub-Natural History This goddess became the personification

This goddess became the personification of money

in mahogany with stained pine rear slats

Lord Hindlip married Elizabeth Tongue

the whole surviving from the second quarter of twentieth century England

There is soiling and foxing and losses to many of the engravings but we love the overall feel

A Late 19thC Carved & Polychrome Painted Dummy Prop Head; Ex Harry Houdini; By Repute sub-Natural History This goddess became the personificationOrigin: Presumed AmericanPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: Ex Harry Houdini (1874 1926); By ReputeDate: c. 1900The Whole: 23 high x 15 wide x 7 deepThe Head: 9 high x 6. 5 wide x 7 deepThe beautiful polychromed mannequin or prop head primitively carved in the round, now wonderfully worn with age, of a male with the hair now lacking, bearing traces of paint, with a fabric bow tie and shoulders to a cylindrical wood support swaddled in period linen; the