1910s Carnival Art

Set a three circa nineteen ten american target practice items. A chicken, a goose and a pig, are the designs of these 3 whimsical and fantastic targets. Possibly part of a larger car...

Fantastic set of three Herschell Spillman carousel rounding board heads. Cast iron faces with wood board backs. All in original park paint. Each face/bo...

Early 20th century fairground automaton soldiers We are proud to offer a rare example of an early 20th century fairground automaton display. Made from toleware metal sheets and pine...

Early 20th century Folk Art fairground roulette wheels We are proud to offer a unique pair of early 20th century scratch built Folk Art French fairground roulette gaming wheels. Made from found objects including what resemble old wooden wheels or inserts, glass door nobs...

Early 20th century fairground fortune telling penny machine We are proud to offer a unique and very rare early 20th century English fairground penny fortune telling machine...

Intriguing wooden Folk Art from a carnival or circus, representing a ship figurehead/mermaid. Hand carved in the early 20th century, it has its original, age-cracked surface paint. N...

Antique horse fragment from Guerrero, Mexico. Mounted on custom iron base. Early 1900s.

Early 20th century cast iron amusement arcade footballers - Price is per piece - Cast iron with Phosphor bronze kicking leg - Original paint - Originally used in the amusement ...

Smaller type "portable" carnival bean toss game with three figures; a Frenchman on one end, an Asian looking gentleman on the other end, and a clown in the middle. all are wearing their period original clothing in excellent condition. The hand painted papier mâché faces are also in excellent and original hand painted condition; quite extraordinary considering they are waiting to be knocked down by a ball or a bean bag. The top canopy is hand painted blue and the thin curtain wood border is hand painted in red; there are some applied gold "stars" but most of them are missing (see image). This type of game would have been prevalent at carnivals during the turn of the century and later. The original brightly colored lithographed paper front, consists of an old lady and her black cat standing in the doorway; and two targets in place atop the painted picket fence with a garden behind. This is attached to a wood frame. This frame is also attached, in an easel like fashion, to another wood frame that folds down flat; a piece of string holds it on one side from opening all the way when it is put "in play". The French looking figure, in conjunction with the popularity of these carnival games...

Antique tabletop gaming wheel. Most likely made by Evan's gaming company. Graphic painted dice in original paint surface. Heavy cast iron stand and leath...

a circa 1910 carved and painted jumper, one glass eye (one missing), 4 metal horse shoes labeled PARKER KANSAS (see Image 7) Abilene, Kansas from 1892 -1910 moved to Leavenwor...