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Jeu de massacre (France, circa 1900) Jeu de massacre (France, circa 1900). Cut-out wooden silhouette (48 cm high, 18.5 at its widest, 1.3 thick), painted. At its base, at the back, a system allows it to pivot back and forth on a metal rod, itself fixed to a small wooden beam. Part of a fairground killing game. Numerous characters of the same kind, but all different, were lined up on a wooden beam. Players had to knock them down by throwing balls. The polychromy has faded a little, and the years have also passed, but the figure of the village warden with his drum is clearly recognizable. A testament to the fairground pleasures of the early part of the previous century, when the good people could take their mood out on the representatives of those who symbolized authority: magistrates, gendarmes, policemen, politicians and other distant oppressors. Like the aforementioned good people, these wormholes took a slice when the opportunity arose.

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Jeu de massacre (France, circa 1900) Jeu de massacre (France, circa 1900). Cut-out wooden silhouette (48 cm high, 18.5 at its widest, 1.3 thick), painted. At its base, at the back, a system allows it to pivot back and forth on a metal rod, itself fixed to a small wooden beam. Part of a fairground killing game. Numerous characters of the same kind, but all different, were lined up on a wooden beam. Players had to knock them down by throwing balls. The polychromy has faded a little, and the years have also passed, but the figure of the village warden with his drum is clearly recognizable. A testament to the fairground pleasures of the early part of the previous century, when the good people could take their mood out on the representatives of those who symbolized authority: magistrates, gendarmes, policemen, politicians and other distant oppressors. Like the aforementioned good people, these wormholes took a slice when the opportunity arose.

Estimate 80 - 120 EUR

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For sale on Thursday 26 Sep : 14:00 (CEST)
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