Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s singing sticks the flowers and leaves and

the flowers and leaves and swirls and tiny hearts animating the kimono of the figures

which looks very much like the image of snake to me

Beautiful form

and there is one broken rung in the ladder

Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s singing sticks the flowers and leaves andFortuitously, I found this guy in the same spot as the large beware the undertow folk art painting just listedlifeguard to the rescue! And seems to me a lifeguard, with a life preserver to boot, it something we could all use right about now! Pretty cute in his little red shorts, too. A little searching tells me he was made by Grey Iron Casting Co. as part of their American Family at the Beach series, 1940 48. 1 7 8 t. Some paint loss as documented,