Lot 262: Teacher's Highland Cream Blended Scotch Whisky Advertising Statue

A Teacher’s Highland Cream Blended Scotch Whisky advertising bar statue depicting a stylized male academic figure. The figure is shown in full academic dress, comprising a black gown, white collar, black tie, and a mortarboard cap. He holds a large cream-coloured scroll in both hands featuring the brand’s advertising graphics and text. The main printed text on the scroll reads TEACHER’S ‘HIGHLAND CREAM’ The Scotch you know is always right, above a printed signature for Wm Teacher & Sons. Further text at the base of the scroll reads BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY 86 PROOF and Schieffelin & Co. New York, N.Y. next to a red wax seal graphic. The figure stands upon a base fashioned as a closed book with raised yellow lettering reading TEACHER’S across the front edge. The statue is of hollow cast composition construction with an internal unpainted wooden stabilization bar fixed across the centre of the base.