#297

American Wooden Tight-Rope along with Two Bisque-Head Acrobats by Schoenhut
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$2,100
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Description
8" (20 cm.) Including 32"l. red-painted wooden platform with metal tight-tope stretched across four gold wooden poles. Along with two bisque-head acrobats with wooden body, jointing at shoulders and hips, including brown-haired woman with topknot, and black-haired gent with sculpted moustache. Condition: generally excellent, woman has few rubs on hair. Comments: Schoenhut, circa 1910, from their Humpty Dumpty Circus. Value Points: rare tight-rope accessory, the figures are wearing their original costumes.