Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) abandoned mansion 33 pages filled (all

33 pages filled (all

a pencil written message from a S

great for all sorts of displays--and who can ever have too many magnifiers laying around

who signed the bottoms in 1903

Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) abandoned mansion 33 pages filled (allAt 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,