Metal figure about 9" tall. I sold one thinking it was the only one I had. I called it a carnival target because that was the only category that it seemed to fit based on others I found. Then I found another one! My mother and father had second hand stores and did flea markets, so I have a lot of random stuff. What do you guys think it is?
Just a thought - does look like it clipped into a rack - how bout having 2 clipped on opposite ends of the rack and the slot was used to hang a rod full of doughnuts to drain them right out of the oil/grease vats? Holes were for airflow cooling?
I thought it was an anthropomorphic rabbit until terry5732 mentioned a bakery angle. Now I can't decide if it's a rabbit or little baker man. He looks like he's doing jumping jacks. It isn't all pinged up, as if it's been shot at and hit multiple times. It looks like thin-ish sheet metal, not cast iron. And why the nine holes? I've never looked at carnival shooting gallery targets until you posted this. They all seem to be made of heavy cast iron and are all pinged up.
Bunny ears, silly. A boy bunny rabbit in a sailor suit. But maybe a baker wearing the big white hat. Gingerbread man?
Yes, they are. They had to stand up to all that abuse and not tip easily either. I have my eye on some and if the $ come along...I'll have them.
It held a thermometer and mounted in an oven. Wires passed through the holes to hold the glass to the "frame".I have/had one some place/where.............
Undoubtedly! A refrigerator thermometer has the same sort of "clip" arrangement on the bottom as well, so it could be from a commercial fridge as well.
I also vacillated between odd bunny and baker man. I just found it odd that my mother had two alike. She and my father had second hand stores when I was growing up and then did flea markets for years so I have boxes full of oddities in my attic. Every time I open one it's an adventure.
