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Weather vanes were used in seventeenth-century Boston. The direction of the wind was an indication of coming weather, important to the seafaring and farming communities. By the mid-nineteenth century, commercial weather vanes were made of metal. Many were shaped like animals. Ethan Allen, Dexter, St. Julian, are famous horses that were depicted. Today's collectors often consider weather vanes to be examples of folk art, even though they may not have been handmade. Deacon Shem Drowne was the first documented American weather vane maker who created the famous grasshopper vane on top of the Faneuil Hall in Boston. 

 
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ImageCategoryPattern or ItemDescriptionYear Priced
 Weather VanesShipCopper Stand Late 19th Century 24 x 23 In.2011
 Weather VanesStagLeaping Copper 27 In.2011
 Weather VanesStagLeaping Copper Gilt 23 x 27 In.2011
 Weather VanesStagLeaping Directionals Copper Brass Disc Base 16 x 11 In.2011
 Weather VanesSteerCopper Soldered 19 1/2 x 32 In.2011
 Weather VanesSwan Perched On Mermaid’s BackCut & Painted Tin 19th Century2011
 Weather VanesViking LongboardDragon Head & Tail On Keel Copper 1920 22 x 24 In.2011
 Weather VanesWhaleMolded Copper Globe Bronze Directionals c.1950 19 x 37 In.2011
Weather VanesGoatFull Body,Iron,Painted Red,26 1/2 x 31 1/2 In. Illustrated2011
Weather VanesHorseRunning,Full Body,Cast Head,New England,1800s,15 x 24 In. Illustrated2011
Weather VanesRoosterSheet Metal,19th Century,28 In. Illustrated2011
Weather VanesColonel Sanders Kfc, Painted, Metal, 2-Sided, 1950-60, 5 x 3 Ft., Illustrated2010
Weather VanesIndian Standing, Bow & Arrow, Iron, Directional, Green Paint, 44 x 46 In., Illustrated2010
Weather VanesPig Copper, Full-Bodied, Applied Verdigris Patina, Late 1900s, 17 x 28 In., Illustrated2010
Weather VanesRooster Sheet Iron, Directionals, Illustrated2010
Weather VanesStag Leaping, Copper Molded, Gilt, Rod, Stand, Late 1800s, 29 x 24 In. , Illustrated2010
 Weather VanesArrow Banner, Wood, Iron, Zinc, Paint, Gilt, Late 1800s, 18 x 68 In. 2010
 Weather VanesArrow & Globe Copper, Gold Gilt, Metal Stand, 57 In. 2010
 Weather VanesBuccaneer Copper, Directionals, Wood Base, 19th Century, 32 x 19 In. 2010
 Weather VanesCar Roadster, Sheet Metal, Hood Ornament, Black Alligatored, 29 3/4 x 17 1/2 In. 2010
 Weather VanesCodfish Copper, Wood Base, Late 19th Century, 5 1/2 x 18 In. 2010
 Weather VanesCow Bullet Holes, Board Mounted, Milk Glass Lightning Ball, c.1900, 21 x 9 1/2 In. 2010
 Weather VanesCow Copper, Cast Zinc Horns, Verdigris Patina, Gilt, c.1880, 19 In. 2010
 Weather VanesCow Name, 2-Directional Arrow, Copper, Iron, Sheet Metal, Cone Stand, c.1925, 34 x 32 In. 2010
 Weather VanesDeer Running, Tin, Hollow, Directionals, 37 In. 2010
 

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