Painted Cat Boot Scraper with Fantastic Surface abstracted figures with a few letters visible

with a few letters visible on the interior

Clearly the pumpkin-red color of the Red Quill above was its most important attribute

18" x 12 1/2" on heavyweight watercolor type paper

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This is a beautiful finely and tightly woven grass sewing basket that I believe is Native American and dates to the very late 19th or very early 20th century

Painted Cat Boot Scraper with Fantastic Surface abstracted figures with a few letters visibleAnother terrific old cat with a lot of attitude, this one a hand painted folk art boot scraper with a really fantastic painted surface, equally great on both sides. The paint is not chippy, rather it seems sort of miraculously melded to the metal, so it could certainly be used to scrape one's boots still (perhaps wiped down after), or used as a doorstop, though I would likely give it pride of place on a shelf. Great. 12 1 8 w x 9 1 2 t x 2 d and in