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35" (89 cm.) x 24" base. 36"h. Presented on original circus ring base with canvas tent stenciled Humpty Dumpty Circus and decorated with red curtained door at the back and a streamer of colorful flags, is a grand array of circus animals, performers, and accessories, as follows: glass-eyed white horse with rider platform, glass-eyed elephant with rubber snout, glass-eyed donkey with wool saddle, glass-eyed leopard, glass-eyed tiger, and painted eye lion. Performers include bisque strongman, two clowns, three bisque acrobat ladies, wooden acrobat lady and man, ringmaster, lion tamer, hobo, and Chinese man. Accessories include two ladders, three chairs, wire cage, large square drum, cup, small red ball, large round drum, small square drum, hoop, training stick, 3 barrels, 100 lb. barbell, 200 lb. barbell. Good/very good condition. American, Schoenhut, circa 1910.