Old Folk Art Iron Cutout Cat with Lightening Bolt Tail ball with hooks I've tried to figure out

I've tried to figure out what the partial text on the bottom might refer to--looks like the existing letters might read Hemfield

5 3/8" long

and the laced up side of his back leg

remain always a bit of an elusive character--the best sort

Old Folk Art Iron Cutout Cat with Lightening Bolt Tail ball with hooks I've tried to figure outA really fantastic large sheet iron cutout cat, which, though surely once it lived in a garden, I would hang on the wall straight away. The combination of the arched back and lightening bolt esque tail (also looking a bit like a trail of smoke coming out of a chimney) makes it especially special I think, with a wonderful, and wonderfully graphic, interplay of positive and negative space. Its definitely an old one, with plenty off rusting (one one side