A Fine and Rare Carousel Middle Row Prancing Horse, William Dentzel, Philadelphia, circa 1910

With upright head, right leg forward, and real horsehair tail. Mounted on a rod in a black painted wood platform.

Dale Sorenson, North Lake, Wisconsin, April 1978

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Originally part of a carousel in Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania.
Nina Fraley painted carousel figures at her Berkeley studios – called The Redbug Gallery. The name comes from one of the rides that the Fraley’s operated at the family’s amusement park in Seattle.