2242 Nantucket Sailor Boy Whirligig
Product Description
A wonderful carved wood Nantucket sailor boy whirligig in original paint. As is frequently the case, the paddles are missing. 15 1/4 in. tall. ca. 1900 - 1920.
According to Charles Carpenter in The Decorative Arts and Crafts of Nantucket, "whirligigs, carved figures with two paddles which rotate in a breeze with a whirling motion, were designated as weather vanes in Nantucket in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, being called "Sailor-Boy" and "Happy Jack" weather vanes" Referencing Ken Fitzgerald in his book Weathervanes and Whirligigs, he writes: "Until the mid-1930's, the paddle armed figures we call whirligigs were described as weathervanes".
According to Charles Carpenter in The Decorative Arts and Crafts of Nantucket, "whirligigs, carved figures with two paddles which rotate in a breeze with a whirling motion, were designated as weather vanes in Nantucket in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, being called "Sailor-Boy" and "Happy Jack" weather vanes" Referencing Ken Fitzgerald in his book Weathervanes and Whirligigs, he writes: "Until the mid-1930's, the paddle armed figures we call whirligigs were described as weathervanes".
