Tuesday, July 31, 2018

WAGON #11


6 comments:

Wade G. Burck said...

A beauty!!! Name please?

Wade Burck

Chic Silber said...


I'm just the image collector

Wade but not a historian

Chic Silber said...


I had noticed the bull standing

over the supine lady but missed

the alligator in bottom skirt

Fred Pfening said...

Called Spain by show historians because of bull in center. Built by Bode in Cincinnati for Forepaugh-Sells about 1902. Transferred to Barnum and Bailey in 1908, the first year the Ringlings owned the show. On RBBB in 1919 and 1920, and then presumably abandoned at the Bridgeport winter quarters. No evidence of it going on another show after 1920.

Chic Silber said...


Thanks Fred we all would appreciate

many more of your comments please

I noticed the bull but the horseman

looked more like a knight of yore

Wade G. Burck said...

No less then esteemed Fred Phening. Thank you, Fred. I had never seen this wagon before and was struck by the beautiful scroll work. I thought it might be of a bullfighting/rejoneador theme, but didn't understand the women on the ground, other then to "sex" it up. What color was it painted, and were any of the carving's taken off and used on other wagons?

Wade Burck