Lovely Old Hand-painted Butterfly Needle Keep, Canvas and Green Felt checkerboard cat but he does have a

but he does have a nail piercing through one leg and little red spot for the exit wound

(If drawn on

used for gathering many many dozens of eggs and perhaps much else as well--the result being a number of breaks in the the split wrapping the wide band of its rim

Skillfully carved with a lovely intricacy to the neck of the bottle and "walls" at either end of the cage

later 19th c

Lovely Old Hand-painted Butterfly Needle Keep, Canvas and Green Felt checkerboard cat but he does have aSo many little things people once bothered to make beautiful, including so many sewing related things. This butterfly shaped needle book needle keep is a perfect case in point I think, the hand painted exterior made of a canvas type material which gives it a nice stiffness and weight, and then green felt body at center and green felt lining, with one little page inside for needles. Id be inclined to lie it flat and pop it in a frame, or just pin it