Samuel Anderson Robb

Samuel Anderson Robb (c. 1851–1928) was an American sculptor, best known for his carved wooden figures for tobacco shops and circus wagons.

He apprenticed to a shipbuilder (probably Thomas V. Brooks) for five years, then went to work for a wood-carver, making figures for tobacco shops, and attending night classes at the National Academy of Design and Cooper Union.

After his apprenticeship, he worked for William Demuth carving tobacco figures.

His carvings ranged from traditional cigar store Indians to circus wagons and ventriloquist dummies.

He closed his workshop at 114 Centre Street in 1903, after completing a set of circus wagon carvings for Barnum & Bailey.