Antique Copper Sulky Driver from Old Weathervane antique animal illustration with minor wax drips in

with minor wax drips in a couple of spots

is in excellent condition (the wood is just gorgeous

I'd guess the deck dates to the 1940s or so

patient grinder he looks to be

to those antlers just clearing the opening--I find this drawing really wonderful

Antique Copper Sulky Driver from Old Weathervane antique animal illustration with minor wax drips inCertainly this old guy once sat on a sulky behind a horse as part of a fine antique weathervane, I'd guess early 20th century. The rest of it may live on somewhere else, and I'd guess he once had arms, too, though there is really no sign of welding along his shoulders, so perhaps he was never finished? At any rate, I rather love him now just as he is, a mix of elegant and awkward, forever holding this funny posture, which keeps making me think of him