Feb 07, 2002 - Sale 1924

Sale 1924 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 805
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
THE JUMPING HORSE "CARRY-US-ALL". Circa 1910.
19 1/2x26 1/4 inches. Riverside Print Co., Milwaukee.
Condition B+: slight tears, wrinkles and abrasions in image. Matted and framed. Paper.
A colorful and detailed image of Parker's "$20,000 mass of gold and glitter", depicted in gold, red, blue, brown and green. Parker's merry-go-rounds, which affectionately became known by the punny "Carry-us-all" were built in Abilene Kansas, a fact which actually appears on the poster in the details of the carousel.