An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché French Fairground Passé-Boules Ball Toss Game

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An Early 20thC Painted Papier-Mâché French Fairground Passé-Boules Ball Toss GameOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Early 20thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910 35Height: 25Width: 14. 5Depth: 10The papier mch Pass Boules toss game, as a Pierrot clown, wearing a blue rimmed pointed hat, with a gaping open mouth into which one tosses balls, showing the original painted features, and with unusual glass eyes, the whole on a pink painted hanging board showing related newspaper cuttings to the reverse, to a ball tray with chalked sections at 2, 5

Than ever lover to the nightingale

There are busts by Spence of William Roscoe in the National Portrait Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery and of Reverend H

in Jane Munro

She and all her clothes and accessories are entirely made from sculpted and wrapped paper

At his death in 1887

This is a picture meriting further research

the Great Northern Railway ordered their first “accident” crane from Kirkstall Forge Co

furniture design

2x (large & small) Sewell’s Cabinet of Conjuring Tricks (contents loose)

England on May 26th 1915 and penned by C

Height: 26” (size without hessian bordering)

the whole with its original cord