Playful Tabletop Construction Incorporating Schoenhut Circus Barrel and Stand painted stone fruit Fred Sandback

Fred Sandback

with a screw still in the base

with lots of graphic punch to its orange and green paint job

There is also a bit of loss to the surface of one post at top

It seems they might once have worn hats at there is some white paint on the head of the plum one

Playful Tabletop Construction Incorporating Schoenhut Circus Barrel and Stand painted stone fruit Fred SandbackI'm not sure if this one was constructed with a purpose (i. e. as a key hanger!) or just as a playful sculpture toy, but clearly whoever made was having fun, and a fun thing it is. The blue and yellow pedestal base and the red white and blue barrel at top were both originally props in a Schoenhut Circus set, late 19th early 20th, which the maker of this joined via a metal rod, run through the center of a red stained wooden sphere bead, from which