Snyder will chip away almost 200 pounds of excess wood to find the horse inside. ... He sells a full-sized carousel horse for $6,500 and a rocker for $3,000.

This merry-go-round came off the assembly line in Tonawanda, N.Y., at least 100 years ago. By 2017, the wood horses were rotted. Charlie and other officials had a decision to make about restoring ...

The centuries old craft of wood carousel carving lives on in Ohio. A family owned company is keeping alive the timeless craftsmanship of hand carved horses and other merry-go-round pieces. When you ...

Glory, a wood carousel horse put up for an online auction as a fundraising effort by The Spirit of Columbia Gardens Carousel, sold “at the last minute” for $10,000 — ...

Q-When pricing an old carousel horse, ... After plastic was invented, beaded fruit replaced the stone, wood and velvet versions. In the 1940s and ’50s, ...

When he received it 18 years ago from a fellow carousel enthusiast, its paint was chemically stripped, pieces of its wooden body were rotted away and there were at least 250 nails holding it together.

A carousel horse whisperer — Wichitan Marlene Irvin, who rode the horses as a child — is bringing them, one by one, back to a new life: shiny, earth-toned, decorated with the tendrils of ...

But a carousel horse whisperer – Wichitan Marlene Irvin, who rode the horses as a child – is bringing them, one by one, back to a new life: shiny, earth-toned, decorated with the tendrils of ...

When Don and Fae Allen are at home in Chestertown, they can watch horses galloping and grazing in their own back yard. The Allens’ ranch house, which overlooks the Chester River, also overloo… ...

A Carousel for Missoula has added a new pony to its herd. Technically, it’s more of a reunion. The wood-carved horse, about a hundred years old, was part of a carousel at Ponderosa Ranch, an ...