Charming Old Iron Cutout Orange Painted Bird on Post pine wood and the interior is black

and the interior is black lacquer

The cloth covered corners of this copy are a bit worn

Jane Saunders in Oneonta

Eleanor studied in Halifax and the Avoncroft Pottery

Charming Old Iron Cutout Orange Painted Bird on Post pine wood and the interior is blackPerhaps this wonderful painted sheet iron cutout bird was once the topper on a weathervane? I am not entirely sure, but in any case it's a pretty fabulous thing, with the orange paint perfectly aged and weathered to give it almost a marbleized look set off by the rich black. I really think the silhouette could not be better either, with that beak open to sign toward the sky! I am not sure the age but certainly old. In great shape, with the iron giving