Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms nail rake This wonderfully awkward thing really

This wonderfully awkward thing really moves me on every level

Scattered water stains

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I love the row of tiny figures in their various hats arranged under the waving flag

that one dated 1922 and from Maine

Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms nail rake This wonderfully awkward thing reallyI 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