Playful Tabletop Construction Incorporating Schoenhut Circus Barrel and Stand painted stone fruit with a screw still in

with a screw still in the base

While great just as objects

one larger

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

plus gold flourishes at the corners

Playful Tabletop Construction Incorporating Schoenhut Circus Barrel and Stand painted stone fruit with a screw still inI'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