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Antique American Soldier Whirligig

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Carved and painted Pine with rotating sheet iron swords, with black hair, mustache and beard, bicorn hat, blue jacket with tacks for buttons, black boots mounted on a yellow circular base, original surface. American, Measure: 15” high, c. 1900
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