Great Old Stocking Cat with Button Eyes and Knotted Tail folk art religious I picked this one up

I picked this one up yesterday in Northwood New Hampshire

with some aging/cracking (but no chipping) to the black paint only

now lost if there were

is a set of turned bone pegs (not enough to fill all of the holes on the board

tells the story of young Henry's rescue of a beautiful songbird (from the jaws of his cat)

Great Old Stocking Cat with Button Eyes and Knotted Tail folk art religious I picked this one upI've always been a bit amazed by the prices these old folk art sock stocking cats command, but now having this one in my possession, I'm reluctant to let it go it's fabulous! It's a fairly old one, maybe 1920s 1930s or so?, and a fairly large one, too, with some holes in the stocking testifying to some moths or something nibbling away at it at some point unless it was a hole y stocking to begin with! Great button eyes, wonderful face with embroidered