ATTRIBUTED TO A.L. JEWELL & CO. OR THE BOSTON METAL-WORKERS COMPANY, MASSACHUSETTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Similar models of weathervanes were made by both A.L. Jewell & Co. and the Boston Metal-Workers Company. See Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz, A Gallery of American Weathervanes and Whirligigs (New York, 1981), p. 51. no. 78 and Charles Klamkin, Weathervanes: The History, Design and Manufacture of an American Folk Art (New York, 1973), p. 88.