Folk Magic: A Rare & Early Dried Cat Head sub-Curios It is mounted and framed

It is mounted and framed in a quality aluminium frame

and 'London Borough of Camden'

with fabric attachments

The interior flowers have a few small areas of worn and flaking paint

bound in grape leather and tied with silk

Folk Magic: A Rare & Early Dried Cat Head sub-Curios It is mounted and framedOrigin: British Period: Seventeenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1600 1700 Height: 2. 5 inches (with neck) Length: 4 inches The well preserved mummified head and neck with in tact teeth, having some remaining coloured hair. Condition is good, given age and fragility, though there is one medium sized hole to the top of the skull; the whole however remains in good stable order. According to mediaeval superstition, old shoes, bottles, and less