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Dancers (often sold as a and win a prize!” More ← Carnival chalk ware WWI doughboy
male and female pair) were ← Beer drinking pig bank often than not, the prizes soldier with flag is one of the earliest
that was a carnival prize,
common MCM chalk ware circa 1940s. This chalk ware were chalk ware figures. carnival chalk ware pieces, circa 1930.
This excellent piece is valued at $175.
motifs. piece is valued at $240. Carnival chalk ware
Mid-century chalk ware pieces included tourist
pieces for the home also Still, for most memorabilia, ashtrays, pig as Alexander Baker Company
included household collectors, carnival banks, bobble-heads, and (ABCO) of New York, Reglor
tools, such as string chalk ware is the chalk cartoon figurines. Mickey of California, Jo Wallis Lamp
holders, disposable ware that screams Mouse, Popeye, and Porky Company, and Universal
advertising pieces, nostalgia. Carnivals Pig are just three of the Statuary Corporation of
small plaques, and were America’s summer- many cartoon characters Chicago.
popular kitchen time playgrounds that were produced in chalk Because chalk ware
decorations for the before Disney and other ware and given away as chipped easily and its fragile
walls. amusement parks opened. game prizes at carnivals in the colors sat exposed on the
MCM chalk ware The smell of cotton 1930s-‘50s. Kewpie Dolls surface of the pieces rather than
remains the most candy, screams were still quite popular being fired with a glaze (their
expensive of all of Ferris wheel during this time, and beeswax or varnish coatings
collectible chalk ware, riders, and the hundreds of thousands gave them little protection),
costing thousands of lights and barkers of of chalk Kewpie very few carnival chalk ware
dollars for some rare or exotic the midway made carnivals Dolls were given away pieces have survived without
pieces. thrilling entertainment for all at carnivals during serious dings and scratches.
Not surprisingly, chalk ware ages, and everywhere, at every this 25-year period. Some Many carnival pieces were taken
pieces were easy to reproduce, so carnival there was chalk collectors only collect chalk home only to become targets for
some of the most successful pieces ware. ware Kewpie Dolls, but the slingshots and BB guns. Young girls,
were shamefully reproduced over and Shooting galleries, number of different designs in the 1950s, used broken carnival
over again. In 1953, Benjamin and games of chance, dart is limited. chalk ware pieces to draw sidewalk
Rena Stein, of Reglor, California, throwing, balloon breaking, Although most collectors hopscotch games.
sued to stop reproduction of their or ring tossing, the midway only seek chalk ware pieces Even pieces that survived
copyrighted chalk ware lamps and attracted all ages. Carnivals that interest them, so actually unscathed often look shabby and
statuettes. The case went all the way had a single goal: entice collection certain chalk worn since they are fragile, and chalk
to the US Supreme Court, who sided everyone to spend a dime on a ware manufacturers, such ware pieces, essentially cannot be
with the Steins, but nothing stopped game of “skill.” cleaned, so a collection of carnival
the flood of reproduced chalk ware Barkers shouted out ← Highly sought after, Lone Ranger chalk ware figurines remains
carnival chalk ware, circa 1950s’
pieces. challenges—“Step right up piece that is valued at $100. somewhat dirty looking.
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