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Here is an antique, painted, wooden butler stand that modeled after the newspaper comic character named Jiggs in   "Bring Up Father" that debuted  n January 12, 1913. 
These were used for smoking stands or to hold a drink.  We used it as a business card holder in our shop!

The condition is great for it's age! The paint has the grain showing through. I think it was painted like that or could be age related.. There are solid opaque areas. The figure wiggles a little on the stand. Just needs to be hammered down again.
Take a look. So cool!

Great comic cartoon folk art.  I would date this to between 1913- 1920's.
The stand measures about 31" high.  Base measures 13" x 12". If we take the base off and you re-attach, the shipping will drop by more than half
 Here is the story:
The humor centers on an immigrant Irishman named Jiggs, a former hod carrier who came into wealth in the United States by winning a million dollars in a sweepstakes. Now nouveau-riche, he still longs to revert to his former working class habits and lifestyle. His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat corned beef and cabbage (known regionally as "Jiggs dinner") and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by his formidable, social-climbing (and rolling-pin wielding) harridan of a wife, Maggie, their lovely young daughter, Nora and infrequently their lazy son Ethelbert later known as just Sonny.

The strip deals with "lace-curtain Irish", with Maggie as the middle-class Irish American desiring assimilation into mainstream society in counterpoint to an older, more raffish "shanty Irish" sensibility represented by Jiggs. Her lofty goal�frustrated in nearly every strip�is to bring father (the lowbrow Jiggs) "up" to upper class standards, hence the title, Bringing Up Father. The occasional malapropisms and left-footed social blunders of these upward mobiles were gleefully lampooned in vaudeville, popular song, and formed the basis for Bringing Up Father.

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