The Salvatore “Cherni” Cernigliaro Letters —
Carousel master-carver, Salvatore Cernigliaro, known as “Cherni” from the “Golden Age” of American Carousels;
Reprinted from the September, October and November, 2004 The Carousel News & Trader.
Slavatore “Cherni” Cernigliaro was really the one master-carver from the “Golden Age” of carousels, dating back to 1900 even, to survive into modern times and. “, along with so much else in the carousel art world, were first introduced to the modern world by historian Fred Fried in his 1964, modern-time groundbreaking, “A Pictorial History of the Carousel”. The few others to survive from those days, Harry, Rudy and Barney Illions, sons of Marcus. Fred, along with others helped open our eyes that all carousels did not come from Germany, (though some came from German immigrants, but also Italian, Russian, and many other Europeans; many who turned their furniture and other wood working artistry into the fine art of carving carousel horses.
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