Great Old Stocking Cat with Button Eyes and Knotted Tail iridescent with these fantastic tiny legs

with these fantastic tiny legs on its sides seeming perhaps to just be emerging

) Three nicely carved balls in the cage below

blank on the back

1940s/50s or so I'd guess

perhaps to be raised when good luck was especially needed

Great Old Stocking Cat with Button Eyes and Knotted Tail iridescent with these fantastic tiny legsI'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