Old Folk Art Iron Cutout Cat with Lightening Bolt Tail ball with hooks 5 3/8" long

5 3/8" long

and the laced up side of his back leg

2 1/2" tall

it seems it could have been made to be a cigarette case

The overall effect I think is super striking

Old Folk Art Iron Cutout Cat with Lightening Bolt Tail ball with hooks 5 3/8" longA 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