Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms chalk reads: "Genuine Oil Painting executed

reads: "Genuine Oil Painting executed at the Fair in less than three minutes by our celebrated Lightning Artist in the same manner in which he paints them on our machines"

The San Jose mission was founded in 1797 by the Franciscan order--the 14th Spanish mission established in California--and

and even a tiny figure I assume represents a dwarf (as well as a man with a very large belly

I will never pass up a sweet old cow drawing

Antique Painted Tin Folk Art Pair of Figures in Bowlers with Pointing Arms chalk reads: "Genuine Oil Painting executedI bought this one at a very good antiques show in Pennsylvania, from a dealer who had had it in her personal collection for many years. Perhaps obvious to someone else, but I'm not sure if once part of a sign or a weathervane or what, but I'd guess the pointing fingers on these two articulated, painted tin men in bowlers were meant to point toward something! Perhaps the round balls fists at the ends their other arms giving a clue? maybe part of a