Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) antique laboratory just everything great in antique

just everything great in antique playing cards with their square corners

they are also very handy

here are three vintage (c

I believe the wood is walnut but am not entirely certain

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Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) antique laboratory just everything great in antiqueAt first I thought perhaps this was meant to be a cicada, but now I think maybe a long tongued fly; really, that long spiral out front is like the rolled tongue of a butterfly, or that of a salamander! Whatever the case, quite a wonderful bug it is, I think, composed of what looks to me a combination of iron, steel and copper wire creatively and dexterously welded together, with a lovely delicacy that comes especially from the treatment of the wings,