We have always considered and collected these commercial masks and helmets as industries tribal art. Examples can be elegant in their simplicity or bazaar and complex. They are always unique, suprising and filled with personality.
Early Folk Art Clown Bicycle
This is a very unusual and memorable clown bicycle with boots for back wheel. Its also a wonderful and inventive piece of early folk art and was once part of the Metz Museum for many years. I believe the bicycle dates to the 1930s. The boots look newer and may have been replaced along the way. Its in rideable condition. This is something that can only be one of a kind and was custom built to order for a circus performer and treasured…38″ Ht., 76″ length… $5200