SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat US Playing Card Co Graphite and blue crayon

Graphite and blue crayon

which are attached by nails

Late 19th c or so

with a sculptural frog perched on one side as if to swim in the liquid falling its way

SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat US Playing Card Co Graphite and blue crayonI 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