Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms nail rake with one side clearly the

with one side clearly the face (front)

This wonderfully awkward thing really moves me on every level

and Schmeling on the other

I'm finding myself drawn to American eagles in all sorts of incarnations of late with a certain sense of urgency- at least in good part for fear of their extinction

Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms nail rake with one side clearly theI bought this one at a very good antiques show in Pennsylvania, from a dealer who had had it in her personal collection for many years. Perhaps obvious to someone else, but I'm not sure if once part of a sign or a weathervane or what, but I'd guess the pointing fingers on these two articulated, painted tin men in bowlers were meant to point toward something! Perhaps the round balls fists at the ends their other arms giving a clue? maybe part of a