Fantastic Old Folk Art Oil Cloth Black Cat with Whiskers and Trousers Papier Mache puppets There's a little wood chipped

There's a little wood chipped away around the coin opening

the donkeys--and companion elephants

But I've searched and searched and not found another quite like it

or filled with a bloom

” but also a square of sandpaper adhered to the bottom left corner for striking matches

Fantastic Old Folk Art Oil Cloth Black Cat with Whiskers and Trousers Papier Mache puppets There's a little wood chippedQuite a cat, hand sewn of oil cloth I think at least a hundred years ago, and surely one of a kind. The terrific pink, heart shaped stitched on nose and mouth are sewn on with the same loop type stitching as used to hold the cat together, and then these fantastic hanging whiskers on either side, some still tipped in yellow paint. Plus red linen trousers held up with buttoned straps. The green sparkly center of one of the beaded eyes is gone and he is