Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) antique laboratory here are three vintage (c

here are three vintage (c

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just everything great in antique playing cards with their square corners

This wonderfully awkward thing really moves me on every level

with the seven gesturing hands to my eye together making for quite a satisfying composition

Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) antique laboratory here are three vintage (cAt 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,