E279 This beautiful model of a late 19th Century Victorian home shows a lot of fine details with wooden weatherboard siding and applied corner strips. Each shingle is handmade! This model has the best scale that you will ever see. The windows are taller on the 1st floor than the 2nd floor and the attic windows are in perfect proportion as well. Windows have fine detailed trim with header top moldings and the Victorian door has a wooden panel below a large single-glass windowpane. The model is complete with a nice wrap-around porch with handmade porch posts! We were given the following Provenance with this piece: actual model of a house in Xoglstown Pa (Doylestown) Occupied by a Dr. Endred. Model was made by Alvin T. Smith 15841 Kutztown Road Masontown PA about the year 1900. Mr. Smith was a locksmith by trade. Measurements are 21 1/4 x 26 1/2" x 27" tall
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