Painted Ponies

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Summary: Great Carvings
Review: A delightful book on a vanishing art form: hand carved carousel animals, sleighs, and ornaments. The color photographs are excellent. The background on merry-go-rounds and round-abouts is fun. The carvers and their companies are discussed in detail. Timelines, a directory, publications, restoration services, music, and a brief bibliography are included. I would have preferred an annotated bibliography, and citations of non-bound materials. In any event, this one is a keeper, and will give many hours of enjoyment.

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Summary: Great Carvings
Review: A delightful book on a vanishing art form: hand carved carousel animals, sleighs, and ornaments. The color photographs are excellent. The background on merry-go-rounds and round-abouts is fun. The carvers and their companies are discussed in detail. Timelines, a directory, publications, restoration services, music, and a brief bibliography are included. I would have preferred an annotated bibliography, and citations of non-bound materials. In any event, this one is a keeper, and will give many hours of enjoyment.

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Summary: A must for ANY carousel lover
Review: I absolutely adore this book. The full color photos throughout the book are worth the pricetag, not to mention the extremely detailed history of the carousel and some of the more reknowned carvers. You can't pass this one up.

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Summary: A must for ANY carousel lover
Review: I absolutely adore this book. The full color photos throughout the book are worth the pricetag, not to mention the extremely detailed history of the carousel and some of the more reknowned carvers. You can't pass this one up.

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Summary: If you love carousels, you'll love this calendar
Review: I haven't seen the 1999 calendar, but I enjoyed the 1997 Painted Ponies calendar immensely. The photographs are spectacular! And the figures they've chosen to include are fabulous! If you are a carousel fan, you will be thrilled with the magic of carousel art every day.

Last year, I was given a different calendar with carousel figures on it...the difference was incredible. The quality of the two calendars was significantly different.

This year I searched until I could find this calendar again and I am looking forward to spending another year with the Painted Ponies.

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Summary: Absolutely a must have book
Review: OK I gotta give the book a great review as one of the authors is a very dear friend. (Marianne Stevens) I love the photos of the carousel that she purchased from my cousins!

Seriously though this book is an absolute must have for anybody not only interested in Carousels but also in amusement park history. It's a wonderful coffe table book with to die for color photographs and fascinating information.

Even children will love this book! It's beautifully done with glossy photos. Absolutely super.

Warren Crandall

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Summary: An excellent reference book!
Review: Painted Ponies is THE best book on carousel art. We own 80 carousel animals & every book on fairground art but Painted Ponies is the only book we use as a reference. Whether you are an enthusiast, a first time buyer or an experienced collector, the hundreds of color photos are very useful to identify horses. It was also a wonderful source for paint & color ideas during the restoration of our antique carousels & animals.

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Summary: An excellent reference book!
Review: Painted Ponies was the first book I read dealing with carousel ponies. It inspired further interest. The book is load with pictures. The text deals with the primary carousel styles: Philadelphia; Coney Island; and Country Fair. In addition there are appendixes that deal with restoration services and currently operating carousels from the early 1900s.

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Summary: Great introduction to Carousel Horses
Review: Painted Ponies was the first book I read dealing with carousel ponies. It inspired further interest. The book is load with pictures. The text deals with the primary carousel styles: Philadelphia; Coney Island; and Country Fair. In addition there are appendixes that deal with restoration services and currently operating carousels from the early 1900s.

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Summary: best book for carousel art and history
Review: This an excellent book giving a good insight into the history of carousels from their early beginnings. Crammed with beautiful photographs of the various animals and some rare photographs of the carvers and their workshops. A must reference book if you are into carousels.