Cast Bronze Double Sided Row of Hands Mold green snake the truly cherubic angel below

the truly cherubic angel below

so you can imagine how excited I was to find these antique magic trick cards

The super long stick makes them great for sticking into a potted plant--ideally near a window where they might then do their job as hummingbird magnets

and lacquered with tree resin

Cast Bronze Double Sided Row of Hands Mold green snake the truly cherubic angel belowHands everywhere! Very unusual to find a mold like this cast of bronze it seems to me, which makes me think perhaps this was cast from a cast of a pewter mold as something of an art piece(?) Whatever the case, its existence in bronze certainly makes it feel like an art object (2 objects really) and I really love these rows of waving hands, which lend themselves to various presentations in relation to one another but are also quite nice divided up;