An Early 20thC American Folk Art Painted Cast Iron Boot Scraper Formed as a Cat c.1920

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An Early 20thC American Folk Art Painted Cast Iron Boot Scraper Formed as a Cat c.1920Origin: American Period: Early 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1920 Width: 14. 5 Height: 9. 5 Depth: 4. 25 The sculptural American folk art cast iron boot scraper, cast in one piece, formed as a striding cat, its body rendered in a flattened silhouette with tail arched high and head lowered in purposeful motion, being primitively modelled, giving a remarkable strength of outline, the elongated back, lightly defined haunches and incised whisker

For over 100 years the Shapland and Petter factory has stood at the end of Barnstaple Long Bridge

Length: 12 inches

The texts would keep him mentally sane

The condition of the bust is simply wonderfully decorative with the original paint having worn off in several areas and with the whole now of a beautiful sea green grey colour overall and with the piece not having any restoration or over-painting

It's one of the oldest forms of roundabout in Britain

in 1868 'A board of guardians' was sold for £100

It obviously has the signs of daily use and wear to the extremities

The very attractive and decorative late nineteenth century bleached maple and parcel-gilt toilet or dressing mirror

one being a pearl and one paste

the spinach green upholstery being close hob-nailed and the wholes surviving from the middle part of the twentieth century

The firm operated independently as Elkington & Co

with some spotting largely visible to the ground

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