Old Straw Stuffed Much Loved Handmade Cat folding and carved details around the

and carved details around the perimeter to enhance its "shell

but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany

which isn't always how one might think of a seal

Hard to beat this iconic logo

and is a good one either hung from one nail or just sitting on the shelf

Old Straw Stuffed Much Loved Handmade Cat folding and carved details around theWhat a face! And what a lot of love this cat has seen (and given, I think!), with reinforcement stitches all the way around the neck and on the tail too, and it looks to me likely loosing its button eyes along the way, but of course I think all the more charming for the wear. With a hand drawn heart shaped nose and mouth and dots for whiskers in what is not a pinkish red, and stuffed full with straw that surely is well over 100 years old. He's