SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat US Playing Card Co Late 19th c or so

Late 19th c or so

Graphite and blue crayon

with a sculptural frog perched on one side as if to swim in the liquid falling its way

I believe this one dates to the very late 19th century

these have an older Bennington mark

SOLD Folk Art Whirligig Man in Polychrome with Red Tin Hat US Playing Card Co Late 19th c or soI presume this old whirligig was meant to represent a soldier in his bright red painted tin hat with crisp brim at front, but he also makes me think of a train conductor, and in his white outfilt of a baseball player too, so I think he can swing many ways! I especially like the very long blades of his rotating arms, which still turn easily and smoothly, and with one of them touching the ground it seems as if he might be paddling a boat (or a paddle