These life-sized painted figures, popular in Europe and colonial America in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, were designed to amuse and confuse.
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Beautiful antique English painted oak dummy boards. Their clothing is early 18th Century and the male is holding a bird and the female a fan. These
Antique English Oak Dummy Boards - a Pair
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