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Tambourine

Catalog#:	7th Anniversary
Category:	Folk Art
SubType:	{Other}
Origin:	America-USA
Era:	19th Century
Depth:	1.5 inches inches



Late 19th century tambourine comprised of a circular red painted pine frame with cymbals, showing a tautly stretched leather playing surface with the head of a smiling black man, the border inscribed 'The Raeford's Singing and Dancing Minstel (sic) Quartette,' all in polychrome paint in a remarkable state of preservation, ex GW Samaha Collection, Milan, Ohio. 11" in circumference x 1 1/2" deep.

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