Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) flower pattern There's so much else going

There's so much else going on its not very noticeable

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

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8 1/16" x 6 9/16"

Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) flower pattern There's so much else goingAt 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,