Blue Stuffed Cat with Terrific Hand-Embroidered Face glass design West African Barber shop/hairdressers signs

West African Barber shop/hairdressers signs like this

including seemingly hundreds of complete first edition sets of various adventure series for young readers

and would be inclined to hang it on the wall

I believe these date to the 1920-30s

Turning the handle here rotates one of two colorful round glass slides

Blue Stuffed Cat with Terrific Hand-Embroidered Face glass design West African Barber shop/hairdressers signsA real charmer of a stuffed cat I think, with an excess of attitude! It's the embroidered face that sold me, with those green eyes and crazy eyelashes, but especially the flurry of stitches for the mouth and whiskers, looking like a bunch of arrows pointing in different directions. And fringe on the tail, too. 11 t (not including tail) x 5 1 8 w x 1 thick. Good vintage condition, with a bit of staining and a couple of tiny holes. All seams tightly