Fabulous Iron Folk Art Crocodile with File Body folk art winder and then flattens for easy

and then flattens for easy storage

made in three parts like a puzzle

1851-1910) that are held in the collection of the Vermont Historical Society

Just minor toning

to my mind constituting "art without intent" for the manner in which crazing to the ceramic has produced this fine network of rust colored lines that run between and among the blue marbled lines patterning the cup

Fabulous Iron Folk Art Crocodile with File Body folk art winder and then flattens for easyI purchased both this one and the heart shaped love token paperweight I am listing next from a South Carolina based dealer at Brimfield who has been the course of a series of excellent things. This iron crocodile, with metal file of a body, I presume was made by a metalworker as a whimsy of sorts akin to a blacksmith's snake. It definitely has some age to it, with some rust showing on those wonderful teeth, especially. Very nicely done, imparting this