Cast Bronze Double Sided Row of Hands Mold green snake only a few miles away

only a few miles away from where I found this

so you can imagine how excited I was to find these antique magic trick cards

) At any rate

The super long stick makes them great for sticking into a potted plant--ideally near a window where they might then do their job as hummingbird magnets

and lacquered with tree resin

Cast Bronze Double Sided Row of Hands Mold green snake only a few miles awayHands everywhere! Very unusual to find a mold like this cast of bronze it seems to me, which makes me think perhaps this was cast from a cast of a pewter mold as something of an art piece(?) Whatever the case, its existence in bronze certainly makes it feel like an art object (2 objects really) and I really love these rows of waving hands, which lend themselves to various presentations in relation to one another but are also quite nice divided up;