Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) abandoned mansion or a dose of loveliness

or a dose of loveliness on your desk

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with some loss to the fish as noted and light general wear

I do seem to be having a bit of a horse moment

Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) abandoned mansion or a dose of lovelinessAt 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,