Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird modernist pin I've found some clothespin sailors

I've found some clothespin sailors

hard not to feel cheerful with this nearby

with one eye and mouth wide open

by Phil Sellers

I think I'd use it as a serving bowl

Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Bird modernist pin I've found some clothespin sailorsI had two of these previously, which quickly sold, and was happy to find another, as I think these are amazing. I think this was most likely part of a singing bird cage or cuckoo clock or something similar, where some sort of mechanics would periodically trigger the wings to raise and beaks to open perhaps simultaneously producing a chirp chirp! One could just stick it in a little vase or small planter, to hover over a succulent, say. It's a fairly