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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Small black cat made from plush fabric: long silk (?) pile held in a brown cotton ground-weave. Cat is adhered to thin card coarsely cut to shape of cat. Card has shiny white surface on reverse. Eyes made from yellow-green glass beads stitched on (through paper) with green cotton thread (Z-twist); mouth embroidered as two vertical stitches using red cotton thread (S-twist) (also through paper). These two stitches hold in place whiskers which are made of long strands of thick white/semi-transparent fibres (synthetic?).
Information on box: 'Black cat carried for Luck by a private of East Kent Regiment 1916'
Amulet in a box, with a typed note: 'Black cat carried for Luck by a private of East Kent Regiment. 1916'. Acquired by the Museum in 1918 from Edward Lovett, a folklorist and collector from Croydon.
