Vintage Tin Toy Carousel Merry-Go-Round

A miniature carousel in vintage tin toy style. A scalloped, fluted canopy with a pennant flag on top is fringed with hanging rounded drops. Beneath it, a central column and a ring of slim poles carry simple stylised horses at different heights, all standing on a round scalloped platform. Fairground carousels with galloping horses became hugely popular in the nineteenth century, and small tin wind-up carousels that spun and sometimes played music were treasured toys for generations. This model i…

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