Set of Five Antique Schoenhut Circus Ladders, Red and Yellow and Whites antique British drawing with a bit of toning

with a bit of toning around the edges of the drawing and the tape behind it showing through just a bit

The backs of these terrific old tramp art frames--late 19th or early 20th century I believe--are almost as great as their fronts

Just a simple one

I love this one very much

but also I think having a bit of a sphynx-like quality

Set of Five Antique Schoenhut Circus Ladders, Red and Yellow and Whites antique British drawing with a bit of toningThe ladders I found in Pennsylvania alongside a set of four Schoenhut Circus platforms also listed today. And as with those geometric, modular stands, the lines of these ladders really do it for me. Plus color here, one in yellow paint, another dark red, and then three variants of white. On a flat surface one can do some stacking of these. Nice hung from a nail each on the wall, too painterly, and sculptural, and also as if ready should one need to