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First, bids were taken on each individual horse. Then, when each individual horse had a sale price, bids were taken for the whole carousel. The opening bid was the sum of the price for all the horses plus ten percent, which came to $385,000. A buyer was found, and a great cry went up from the crowd because the horses would stay together.
Lourinda Bray was an American restoration artist and historian with a specialty in carousel animals. [1] [2] [3] She was also the owner of Running Horse Studios, a 7,000-square-foot carousel animal restoration warehouse.
The original horses were created by carousel-horse carver Marcus Illions, but most of them were replaced by carvings from Charles Carmel in 1927. [3]: 8 [6] The horses and chariots are installed on a rotating wooden platform, with its inner and outer edges painted red. The sizes of the horses vary: the largest horses are located on the outside ...
The carousel was acquired by the Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust in 1986 to prevent it from being dismantled and sold piecemeal to collectors of antique carved horses. [citation needed] Flying Horse Carousel: 1876: Watch Hill, Westerly, Rhode Island: Charles Dare Built in 1876 and listed as a National Historic Landmark. It is one of two ...
The New York Times referred to him as "the Michelangelo of carousel carvers". [4] Illions was born in 1870 or 1871 [1] [3] in Lithuania, [2] [3] becoming a builder of circus wagons [2] before emigrating to England, where he carved carousel horses. [5] An alternative account in an obituary states that he was actually born in England. [1]
Chesapeake Carousel: 1905 Watkins Regional Park Upper Marlboro, Maryland 15 Jumpers, 16 Standing, 13 Menagerie, 2 Chariot Chesapeake Beach (1905-1972) Highland Park Dentzel Carousel: 1904 Highland Park: Meridian, Mississippi 20 Standing, 8 Menagerie, 2 Chariot Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) St. Louis Carousel: 1921 Faust County Park
The carousel was indoors but faced Surf Avenue. The “Flying Horses” catalogue issued in 1970 by Rol and Jo Summit noted that some of the horses on Feltman's carousel were left over from an earlier Looff carousel that caught fire, probably around 1899 or 1900. [4] Feltman's carousel is regarded by some as Marcus Illions' masterpiece. [5]
Pullen Park Carousel: 1900: Raleigh, North Carolina: Idora Park Merry-Go-Round: 1899: Youngstown, Ohio: delisted, restored as Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn, New York Herschell–Spillman Noah's Ark Carousel: 1913