Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s flat lidded basket and maybe a little table

and maybe a little table too

This boat hook just struck me as a satisfying object

This varnished one

but could also imagine him out in the woods

it immediately reminded my of Andy Warhol's Coca Cola paintings and prints

Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s flat lidded basket and maybe a little tableFortuitously, 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,