Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s flat lidded basket Closed: 14 1/4" x 6

Closed: 14 1/4" x 6 1/4" x 1 7/8"

Most are marked on one side with hand-written point values

and maybe a little table too

This boat hook just struck me as a satisfying object

but a slit

Life Saver, Excellent Little Painted Cast Iron Lifeguard with Buoy, 1940s flat lidded basket Closed: 14 1/4" x 6Fortuitously, 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,