Old Folk Art Iron Cutout Cat with Lightening Bolt Tail pink glaze PA and imagine dates to

PA and imagine dates to around 1900 or just a bit earlier

though otherwise in good antique condition

which look to have been salvaged from a library's card catalogue

5" tall x 2 3/4" widest diameter

Old Folk Art Iron Cutout Cat with Lightening Bolt Tail pink glaze PA and imagine dates toA really fantastic large sheet iron cutout cat, which, though surely once it lived in a garden, I would hang on the wall straight away. The combination of the arched back and lightening bolt esque tail (also looking a bit like a trail of smoke coming out of a chimney) makes it especially special I think, with a wonderful, and wonderfully graphic, interplay of positive and negative space. Its definitely an old one, with plenty off rusting (one one side