Wonderful Early Folk Art Sawing Man Whirligig, Working! for the windowsill with a very warm presence

with a very warm presence

but one certainly could

The box measures 6 1/2" long by 3 3/8 inches wide and deep

but might guess early 20th century

I find it a beautiful thing

Wonderful Early Folk Art Sawing Man Whirligig, Working! for the windowsill with a very warm presenceThis is actually the very first whirligig I have ever bought (aside from a few figures salvaged from broken ones) I often look at them, but they often seem more awkward and cumbersome than I want to deal with but not this one, which I find really very elegant and just right in every possible way. Photos really do it no justice; the beauties of the old paint are subtle, the white doesn't come across well in images, and it has a terrific humble delicacy