Red Mouse (or Bat?), Fabulous Old Folk Art Ice Fishing Lure antique snuff box with portrait but not the other

but not the other

stretched over a pine frame

Three holes across center for hanging

Losses as evident but completely stable now

then one by one pasted down to form the grid

Red Mouse (or Bat?), Fabulous Old Folk Art Ice Fishing Lure antique snuff box with portrait but not the otherJust 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