A Wonderful Pair of c.1800 Carved Oak Sailor's Farewell Figures sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Hippocrates (c

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After a number of years travelling around the country

It was purchased by an American magician several years later and performed until it was captured and electrocuted by Thomas Edison who believed it had been enchanted by Nikola Tesla

and hit stardom as Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane

was the most well-known early maker of juvenile rides

A Wonderful Pair of c.1800 Carved Oak Sailor's Farewell Figures sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Hippocrates (cOrigin: British Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1770 1810 Width: 3. 75 inches 3 inches (at widest points) Height: 9. 5 inches 9 inches (the figures) Height of The Wholes: 11. 5 inches 11 inches The male and female carved depictions of a sailor and his sweetheart in period dress, each on an associated oak plinth, the sailor with his hands clasped to his chest in sorrow, the lady looking forlorn with an