Antique "High Striker" Folk Art Tabletop Carnival Game vintage agriculture Housed in a period wood

Housed in a period wood frame with gilt inner liner

are able to have that designation on their sign

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but struggled to stay afloat post-Depression and closed in 1946

a popular line with blue collar types on the East Coast before branching out to all knitware and becoming just "Anvil"

Antique "High Striker" Folk Art Tabletop Carnival Game vintage agriculture Housed in a period woodHandmade tabletop carnival game modeled after the classic "high striker" strength tester, constructed from wood with a tall vertical scoring tower and spring loaded plunger mechanism. The player figure, carved and painted in a crouched stance, raises a small mallet overhead to strike the plunger, sending an internal block upward along the graduated scale inside the glass front tower. The housing is built with nailed plank construction and retains its