An Early 20thC French Card & Softwood Pierrot Clown Pop Up c.1910-30 reserved and the tower with gun

and the tower with gun and periscope

75” wide each

or it may have been part of a larger memorial composition

down the road toward France by which they had come

Though the name of Joseph Robinson is rather common we have a very likely match in the form of a gentleman of the given name

An Early 20thC French Card & Softwood Pierrot Clown Pop Up c.1910-30 reserved and the tower with gunOrigin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd RepublicProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910 25Height: 22. 5Width: 13Depth: 2The amusing and highly decorative printed pressed card and softwood pop up, modelled as two clowns, or Pierrots with typically brightly adorned face make up, pointed hats, shoes and costumes, the concealed clown popping up when the lower bullseye button marked depose is pressed from a wooden mechanism, to a black line decorated backing with hanging cord,