Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s singing sticks A little one

A little one

and there is one broken rung in the ladder

and earlyish 19th c

which looks very much like the image of snake to me

)"--with the unknown-ness of one of the subjects seeming directly at odds with the intimacy conveyed in the image

Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s singing sticks A little oneFortuitously, I found this guy in the same spot as the large beware the undertow folk art painting just listedlifeguard to the rescue! And seems to me a lifeguard, with a life preserver to boot, it something we could all use right about now! Pretty cute in his little red shorts, too. A little searching tells me he was made by Grey Iron Casting Co. as part of their American Family at the Beach series, 1940 48. 1 7 8 t. Some paint loss as documented,