It is a brand-new wooden carousel, custom-designed for its particular location (Extell, the development company that commissioned it, chose an ocean theme), hand-painted and hand-carved the way ...

But, she explains, the endangered status of the antique wooden carousel — there are said to be fewer than 150 of them in operation today — is not simply a matter of dealer greed.

Associated PressThe wooden carousel horse, created by Armitage Herschell Co., would probably be worth about $2,000. Q. Enclosed is a photo of a wooden carousel horse. I was told it is circa 1902 ...

It works like a time capsule. If any kid could fit something somewhere, there's a little hole that goes right through the ...

SAGINAW, MI-- Conversation is continuing in Saginaw around a single wooden carousel horse bearing a Confederate flag. A small group gathered Monday, Aug. 10, outside the Children's Zoo at ...

When Robert Timke bought an old wooden carousel horse 18 years ago, he had no idea what salvation the hand-carved beast would bring him in later years.Timke stored the horse — built in 1879 by ...

In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2019, artist Linda Luster stands in Rocky Ridge, Md., behind the carousel horse she recently painted. Some of her paintings hang on the wall.

People sometimes ask Bill Schneider what he's going to do with the full-size wooden carousel horse he carved by hand last summer. "That wasn't the point," said Schneider, a retired NASA engineer.

He sells a full-sized carousel horse for $6,500 and a rocker for $3,000. Most experts agree that Joe Leonard, a master carver in Mansfield, Ohio, is the best wooden carousel horse carver in the ...

Tiny merry-go-round wind chimes danced from the ceiling as Douglas Dunham reached into a box and pulled out a wooden horse leg, bent at the knee.”You see here, the original leg was missing; so I ...

In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2019, artist Linda Luster stands in Rocky Ridge, Md., behind the carousel horse she recently painted. Some of her paintings hang on the wall. (Sam Yu/The Frederick News ...