Antique Copper Sulky Driver from Old Weathervane Menu candleholders I'd guess earlyish 20th c

I'd guess earlyish 20th c

Maybe it is because I am posting this hand puppet as I listen to the Trump impeachment hearings

This one--made of what appears to be ebony

has a great form and features what I believe is its original brown paint

Antique Copper Sulky Driver from Old Weathervane Menu candleholders I'd guess earlyish 20th cCertainly this old guy once sat on a sulky behind a horse as part of a fine antique weathervane, I'd guess early 20th century. The rest of it may live on somewhere else, and I'd guess he once had arms, too, though there is really no sign of welding along his shoulders, so perhaps he was never finished? At any rate, I rather love him now just as he is, a mix of elegant and awkward, forever holding this funny posture, which keeps making me think of him