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WICKETS over 1,800 entrants in the tournament,
proving that hitting a ball through
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And nearly all folk art wickets are painted in a decorative fashion. fashionable.
The earliest known folk art wickets were made of cast iron
and appeared around 1900. These cast iron wickets included the Cast iron “bellhop”
“bellhop” line of croquet wickets that featured a bellhop with cap. croquet wicket,
Croquet balls were shot between the bellhop’s legs. circa 1900. →
Perhaps the most sought after line of folk art croquet
wickets, circa 1940s, included a mailman, cowboy, sailor, and Playing croquet
with 1960s pink
traffic cop. These animated wickets are hard to find in good plastic flamingo as
condition and cost as much as $600 each on today’s secondary wicket. ↓
markets, making these wickets the most expensive in croquet
history.
Croquet is still a popular sport. About 200 croquet clubs
Folk art croquet wickets, circa 1940s, across the United States are members of the United States
which are valued at $3,600. These Croquet Association, and some colleges have croquet clubs as
animated wickets are much more fun than well, such as The University of Virginia. And in 2011, Oxford
the traditional heavy-gauge wire wickets. University hosted the largest croquet tournament ever held, with

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