Antique Copper Sulky Driver from Old Weathervane JJ P If not as an ashtray

If not as an ashtray

all but one of the original nails on the body of the box are in place

just an honest and handsome little piece

(once) clear glaze over most of the body

Signed on the bottom what appears to be the "ER"

Antique Copper Sulky Driver from Old Weathervane JJ P If not as an ashtrayCertainly 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