A Rare Early 20thC Painted Plaster Laughing Clown Fairground Ball-Toss Game c.1910-20 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Diameter: 2 inches (at base

Diameter: 2 inches (at base of column)

The specimens are hand annotated with the Latin names as follows with some numbers possibly being the dates found such as ’71 and ’75:

Within a year lead was being stripped from the Abbey's roof and the buildings were dismantled even though the monks were still in residence

and with some teeth remaining

EnglandDate: c

A Rare Early 20thC Painted Plaster Laughing Clown Fairground Ball-Toss Game c.1910-20 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Diameter: 2 inches (at baseOrigin: 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