Red, White & Blue Mini Barber Pole Hand-carved Whimsies - Sold Individually antique cloth Not including the hanging loop

Not including the hanging loop

This is a pair of classic Mid-Century Danish Modern silver-plate candleholders

Perhaps it is especially because I keenly identify with this clumsy child

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Red, White & Blue Mini Barber Pole Hand-carved Whimsies - Sold Individually antique cloth Not including the hanging loopI wonder if these charming old barber's pole whimsies were carved by a barber in his spare time? Maybe made as key fobs for the keys to the barber shop?! One finds some wonderful old hand carved barber shop poles and signs, but I've never seen mini versions like this. It may be the case that all three were once part of a larger piece, or the two short ones were opposite ends of one piece and the longer one has lost a link on the opposite end. At any