Set of Five Antique Schoenhut Circus Ladders, Red and Yellow and Whites emboidery West African Barber shop/hairdressers signs

West African Barber shop/hairdressers signs like this

decorated only with some blue glazing on the tail fin

with carved and painted wooden head and body

1940s-50s I believe with nice aging to the (slightly messy) paint job and great combo of bright red and pale yellow

such that St

Set of Five Antique Schoenhut Circus Ladders, Red and Yellow and Whites emboidery West African Barber shop/hairdressers signsThe 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