Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms grooming 7 3/4" t x 2

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I Sometimes I find these glazes a bit much

Claes Oldenburg

greens and blues and the red of one's lion tongue remain in addition to various shades of gold and cream and brown and black

He's threaded with what I believe is his original string

Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms grooming 7 3/4" t x 2I 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