colours, colours and carousels

this account appreciates all things carousel related!

- craftsmanship and restoration

- history behind the horses

- carousel paintings and artworks

- figurines and other merchandise

basically carousel horses wherever i might see them!

let’s talk navigation! i do my best to keep organized

- #neigh? | inbox questions

- #from the saddle | carousel history

- #prized ponies | personal favorites!

- #original | unrestored

- #restoration | touch up!

- #lost carousels | auctioned, fire, etc

looking for a specific carousel carver? try these hashtags

- #herschell | #muller | #dentzel | #carmel

- #philadelphia toboggan | #stein & goldstein

- #looff | #illions | #parker | #heyn | #ed roth

this blog is a safe space to enjoy carousel horses; DNI nazis, terfs, pedos, zionists, anyone hateful and harmful

some carousel horses show carvings of people with occasional nudity, you can block the hashtag #artistic nudity if you do not wish to see

i do my best to credit my sources but if something is missing, please message me privately

while i was the horse lover of the family, my older sister really liked tigers so it was fun to visit a place with carousel decor of what we both loved, it was even better when there was an available booth near these figures

but as years passed, one day we showed up and they were no longer there

while it’s been virtually impossible to find any information on the carousel horses and tiger from my hometown, i did find some scarce carousel content from other locations

according to research, red robin’s frequently modeled their carousel horse reproductions off of looff carved horses

these horses were almost always white with similar trappings to early 20th century carousel horses, the only difference being that they added their logo upon the chest

as for their menagerie tiger? most likely a reproduction too, it did have the same exact pose of most golden age tigers

it’s hard to tell when red robin’s started decorating their restaurants with carousel menagerie or why they stopped, where did they end up? part of me doesn’t want to know 😬