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CARVED FIGURE OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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Marlborough, Massachusetts
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CARVED FIGURE OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT United States of America, c. 1940, carved wooden bust figure with a posable head depicting U.S. President Roosevelt (1882-1945), arms and waist truncated by the self-forming circular base inscribed, 'I DID MY BEST / MY HAND WAS TIED,' referring to the Roosevelt administration's failure to admit Jewish European refugees during World War Two, 7cm wide, 7cm deep, 17cm high (3 1/2in wide, 3 5/8in deep, 7in high). Footnotes: Provenance Darwin Antiques, Huntsville, Alabama. Literature Robert and Anne Levine, American History in Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection, (s.n.: Robert and Anne Levine, 2017), 71. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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CARVED FIGURE OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT United States of America, c. 1940, carved wooden bust figure with a posable head depicting U.S. President Roosevelt (1882-1945), arms and waist truncated by the self-forming circular base inscribed, 'I DID MY BEST / MY HAND WAS TIED,' referring to the Roosevelt administration's failure to admit Jewish European refugees during World War Two, 7cm wide, 7cm deep, 17cm high (3 1/2in wide, 3 5/8in deep, 7in high). Footnotes: Provenance Darwin Antiques, Huntsville, Alabama. Literature Robert and Anne Levine, American History in Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection, (s.n.: Robert and Anne Levine, 2017), 71. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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