Red Mouse (or Bat?), Fabulous Old Folk Art Ice Fishing Lure antique snuff box with portrait I especially love that the

I especially love that the pupil of one of the tiny glass eyes is cast skyward

under glass in an old gold gessoed frame: 11 1/2" x 8 1/2"

stretched over a pine frame

but not the other

Red Mouse (or Bat?), Fabulous Old Folk Art Ice Fishing Lure antique snuff box with portrait I especially love that theJust about my favorite old ice fishing decoy I've ever seen, and much better in hand, with quite an amazing patina in every regard; this one has lived quite a life. Meant to represent a mouse I presume, with a long twisted wire tail, but with those tin wings it could very well be taken for a flying red bat! With red painted tin ears too, and nails for eyes, with one old nail in front of one ear and two in front of the other (my favorite detail). Iron