Sweet Old Folk Art Sawing Man in Blue Cap Whirligig Fragment vintage napkin rings as he would have made

as he would have made a great protagonist--or antagonist--in many a drama

I like it for its bucolic quietness

hopping about by day but I think hovering in the shadows

and while certainly made by the same person

which she invests with lots of life

Sweet Old Folk Art Sawing Man in Blue Cap Whirligig Fragment vintage napkin rings as he would have madeWhat a charmer this guy is in his red, white and blue, holding onto his green saw still, which I assume he once pushed and pulled, back in forth, when attached to a larger whirligig. Much less cumbersome now on his own, though happily still with the nails in his feet that would have attached him to it, reading now rather like spiky cleats to complement his baseball type cap! All of his joints move easily, lending to positioning him in all sorts of