Buyers find treasures at amusement firm sale

Workers move a gleaming carousel horse at the sale.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Dave Helm pushes a cart loaded with a miniature rhinestone-encrusted pewter carousel that he purchased at the sale.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Statuettes of Laurel and Hardy wait at the checkout table.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Danielle Ray watches the concrete Indian statue she bought being loaded onto a truck. She purchased the item for her business, the Venice Beach Freakshow.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Lonnie Lloyd, who was hired as a maintenance worker 31 years ago at Hurlbut Amusement Co. and became shop foreman, lifts a concrete Indian statue into a buyer’s truck.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

This bell was once featured on a Knott’s Berry Farm steam locomotive.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Diane Deckert ties down a nearly life-size replica of a mule that she and her husband purchased. She said she planned to tie it to the porch of her 97-year-old house in Orange.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Mike Bricker, an antique dealer from Tustin, loads an oil painting into his car.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)