Great Old Stocking Cat with Button Eyes and Knotted Tail folk art religious with some aging/cracking (but no

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

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

now lost if there were

which is in very good shape

very empathetic and very squeezable

Great Old Stocking Cat with Button Eyes and Knotted Tail folk art religious with some aging/cracking (but noI'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