A Rare Early 20thC Painted Plaster Laughing Clown Fairground Ball-Toss Game c.1910-20 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Their pieces are heavily sought

Their pieces are heavily sought after by collectors today and are often

on baluster and fluted turned front legs

The naïve yet well carved polychrome painted love token

leaps out of its burrow to make the capture

A Rare Early 20thC Painted Plaster Laughing Clown Fairground Ball-Toss Game c.1910-20 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Their pieces are heavily soughtOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Edwardian George VProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910 20Height: 26Width: 21Depth: 16 (all at extremities)The early fairground or carnival ball game, comprising of a now fragmentary white washed plaster and hessian body with ruffled upper, to cast iron inner piping, to the original painted plaster clowns head with red highlights and conical pierrot hat, having an open mouth to act as the target for wooden balls, the whole now on a