Fantastic Folk Art Lion with Moveable Legs, Long Tail and Bared Teeth! geometric design hydrometer was an old thermometer

hydrometer was an old thermometer

What fun to have this vintage Towle pewter shell game set around--perhaps to pull out at cocktail parties

Dated December 1857

which most likely dates from the mid-20th century

Fantastic Folk Art Lion with Moveable Legs, Long Tail and Bared Teeth! geometric design hydrometer was an old thermometerThis lion was clearly made by someone special, and maybe for someone special too, and I sure love them for it. The shapes and positioning of the jointed legs make for a luxuriously long lion stride, and then this marvelous mane, done as an additional later and painted with blue and orange dabs, with little cutout ears layered on top of that, attached by nails. Plus great big carved white teeth against blood red lips, and a long stiff rope tail,