Old Folk Art Iron Cutout Cat with Lightening Bolt Tail pink glaze I believe this is likely

I believe this is likely German and dates to the 1920s or so

which look to have been salvaged from a library's card catalogue

PA and imagine dates to around 1900 or just a bit earlier

the ball has a diameter of about 1 3/4"

Old Folk Art Iron Cutout Cat with Lightening Bolt Tail pink glaze I believe this is likelyA 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