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 ...

She grew up riding this merry-go-round. Oklahoma’s oldest wood carousel. Image KFOR She smiled for a picture at the age of five or six, and was able to find the very same horse in 2022.

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

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 ...

A-Faux fruit has been a favorite in decorating since the turn of the century. After plastic was invented, beaded fruit replaced the stone, wood and velvet versions. In the 1940s and ’50s, craft ...

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 — the minimum bid. The ...

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 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 ...

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… ...