Lot 0942

Six Vargas Figures of New Orleans Street Vendors

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Six Vargas Figures of New Orleans Street Vendors

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Collection of Six Vargas Family Figures of New Orleans Street Vendors, early 20th century, New Orleans, the figures composed of wax and displayed in contemporary glass domes on wooden stands, several of the figures with labels on the underside of the base for Kate Latter's Candies, the collection including a newspaper vendor carrying a bag fitted with squares of newspaper, an oyster seller with a burlap bag of oysters, a cotton seller carrying bushels of cotton on his shoulder and around his neck, a kindling wood vendor with a bundle of firewood, a shoeshine vendor carrying a brush in his hand and a box around his neck, and a sugarcane vendor holding two tall sugarcane stalks, figures, h. 7" to 7-1/2", w. 3", d. 3".