Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) flower pattern makes me purely happy

makes me purely happy

It measures 7 7/8" tall x 6 3/4" across at widest x 2 5/8" deep and is in very good condition

Engine: 4 7/8" l x 3 3/4" w x 3 3/8" t

I like its simplicity

8 1/16" x 6 9/16"

Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) flower pattern makes me purely happyAt 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,