A Pair of Carved Stone & Tôle Peinte Topiary Garden Urns c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Folklore has it that the

Folklore has it that the events told in Babes in the Wood originally happened in Wayland Wood in Norfolk

though in average condition it remains a desirable book “appealing to all classes

it proves a scarce find and provides masses of macabre

and burning with curiosity

Having the story of this doll documented with accompanying photographs is rare and wonderfully interesting and it elevates the piece to a higher level

A Pair of Carved Stone & Tôle Peinte Topiary Garden Urns c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Folklore has it that theOrigin: BritishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: from a Scottish Country HouseDate: c. 1900Height: 43Width: 24Depth: 18The Bases: 13 SquareThe three piece stone country house urns, being wonderfully decorative, with each urn having scrolled neoclassical handles and issuing metallic painted tole sprays of flowers with three flower heads to each, to socle supports and square bases; the wholes surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century and from