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After an Indian chief weather vane hit $5.8 million at Sotheby’s last year, many folk-art fans didn’t know which way to turn. Blown away by the potent price, they began searching for a new old thing.
Windmill weights are what they found. Mill weights were used to counterbalance the weight of a windmill wheel from the 1880s through the 1920s. When farmers and ranchers converted to electricity, they removed the weights from their sky-high pedestal and propped them in the garden, where they were often jazzed up with paint.
Text by Doris Athineos
Photographs by Bruce Buck
Produced by Leigh Keno and Leslie Keno
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