A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus led them to be highly

led them to be highly coveted collector’s items during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

2014Height: 12

Portable caulking boxes like these would have held the shipwright’s most important tools like mallets and irons

Although he did not have an active role in his business

Essex and Beck & Son of Stoke Neweington N16 London

A Rare Austrian Painted Terracotta Gnome by Johann Maresch c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus led them to be highlyOrigin: AustrianPeriod: Late 19thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 23Depth: 17Width: 12The beautifully decorative and very scarce garden gnome in terracotta being polychrome hand decorated, the smiling gnome in a casual seated position and smoking a pipe, the whole with impressed makers mark JM for Johann Maresch, visible with the inventory number 6869, the whole surviving from turn of the century Austria. The gnome has had some historic