Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms nail rake with the sullen subject reluctantly

with the sullen subject reluctantly sitting for the portrait

and think it would be especially great with ivy growing all around it

that one dated 1922 and from Maine

) than an hourglass

and make very satisfying sounds when shuffled and knocked up against one another

Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms nail rake with the sullen subject reluctantlyI 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