SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat unique dolls though I believe it is

though I believe it is American

looking very much the more poised of the two

Color is best on images of the obelisks laying on their sides

” This seems both a quintessential and a prime example of his work

Another of my very favorite Brimfield finds--five little wonderfully detailed scratch-made tin houses (well

SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat unique dolls though I believe it isI presume this old whirligig was meant to represent a soldier in his bright red painted tin hat with crisp brim at front, but he also makes me think of a train conductor, and in his white outfilt of a baseball player too, so I think he can swing many ways! I especially like the very long blades of his rotating arms, which still turn easily and smoothly, and with one of them touching the ground it seems as if he might be paddling a boat (or a paddle