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"Massacre Game"
Exeptional Massacre game with 5 caricature heads. These heads are carved wood painted in round polychrome bump. Very beautiful dimensions, beautiful volume. Germany early twentieth. Height between 31 cm and 47 cm. Bibliography; Art fairground, knowledge of the arts: "Place of release, the party allowed the public to release his approval or his grudges and to settle accounts with society by beating on impassive victims." Armed with rag balls, the player was trying to shoot the characters who rocked along horizontal rods.Most of the figurines inspired mockery, antipathy, even hate.On found there, mixed, the main social archetypes: the mother-in-law, the hunchback, the witch, the unfaithful woman, the alcoholic, or the idiot of the village and, of course, aftermath of the war of 1870, the Prussian soldier with the effigy of Bismark.

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