Black and White Cat in Profile Doorstop with Alligatored Face printing supplies with all sorts of irregularity

with all sorts of irregularity to the shapes of the bone fronts

7 1/4" x 4 5/8" watercolor on watermarked laid paper

I believe this wonderful horse-shaped boot scraper is Arts & Crafts era

who might once have had hands and feet but I think maybe more likely was a large acrobat squeeze toy

which is backed by a piece of gray stock with the Holman logo

Black and White Cat in Profile Doorstop with Alligatored Face printing supplies with all sorts of irregularityA bit of an unusual one in my experience for this cat being oriented in profile, and what an excellent face, I think, subtly smiling (the smile carved rather than painted) and looking very much as if holding a secret or having just swallowed a canary! Great character, well constructed, and with excellent alligatoring to the creamy white paint of the face on both sides. It also seems like a pretty early on to me, maybe 1920s 30s? 7 5 8" t x 8 1 16"