ALLAN HERSCHELL COMPANY, NORTH TONAWANDA, NEW YORK, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A CARVED, PAINTED AND ILLUMINATED CIRCUS TRADE SIGN
Allan Herschell Company, North Tonawanda, New York, early 20th century
The white-painted astragal-shaped form with arched, raised crest centering a circular aperture set with electrified white bulbs and inset with a conforming panel red, white, green and black-painted with Allan Herschell Co. Inc. Builders N. Tonawanda N.Y.
40in. high, 37½in. wide

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Lot Essay

Similar illuminated carousel accoutrement by Allan Herschell, Herschell-Spillman or Allan Herschell Company are illustrated in Dinger, The Art of the Carousel (Green Village, NJ, 1983), pp. 87 and 98, and a signature panel, p. 96.

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