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Incised on front of base: "CIGARS./ G.B. FAIRGRIEVE. / TOBACCO"; on lowest part of base: "ROBB MANUFR, 114 CENTRE St. N.Y."
Incised on right side of base: "TWITCHELL. CHAMPLIN & CO./ PORTLAND. ME. / SOLE AGENTS FOR / S. OTTENBERG & BROS."
Incised on left side of base: "S. OTTENBERG / & BROS./ CIGAR MANUFRS/ N.Y."
Alan R. Sawyer, “American Folk Art,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 47, no. 1 (Feb. 1, 1953): 11–14 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, “For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 48.
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