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This is an often-copied horse, an armored jumper created by Looff. The horse appears on the front cover of Tobin Fraley's
book The Carousel Animal (though in white rather than black). The horse was the only survivor of a fire that
destroyed an entire carousel in Long Beach, California, in 1943 (it was in the paint shop at the time of the fire).
This piece came with different base configurations, most commonly with an oak music-box base or oval brass base though other
combinations (such as a rocking-horse base) were produced in smaller quantities than the oak and brass bases. The piece is
about 7-8" to the top of the pole. There is usually no coin set into the bases of these. The music box (if it has one) almost
always plays "The Carousel Waltz".
The average price of this piece when new was $40-$65.
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