Ultimate Kauba Antique Vienna Bronze Native American on Horseback Shooting Rifle

This is the best Carl Kauba 1865-1922 Vienna bronze sculpture I have seen in my more than 50 years collecting, buying, selling and appraising antique bronzes. It is one of if not the very best Kaubas known. It has almost all its original cold paint patina intact . It is the best and most animated bronze sculpture by Kauba we have seen. Although he never visited the wild west he must have seen photos or printed images in newspapers in Austria of what Native Americans looked like . He was fascinated with the Cowboys and Indians of the wild west and sculptured what most knowledgeable collectors and dealers agree on that his Native American sculptures are the finest known . This exquisite bronze measures 14-1/2 inches wide by 12 inches high. It weighs 14 pounds.This sculpture is guaranteed to please and delight the most advanced Vienna Bronze, Western Art collector or sculpture connoisseur. Carl Kauba has auction records for his bronzes as high as $56,250. We found auction records for more than 30 of his bronzes that were sold around the world from $10,000 to $56,250. He brings very high prices in the U.K. when his bronzes cross the auction block there. The bronze is signed C.Kauba at the base and also marked Geschutzt 580 near the Indians seat and also marked Geschutzt 580 along the base. Geschutzt means copy right or patent # identifying Vienna Bronzes belonging to the sculptor that created them.