Red Mouse (or Bat?), Fabulous Old Folk Art Ice Fishing Lure antique snuff box with portrait Three holes across center for

Three holes across center for hanging

Very fun to open this old wooden hive shaped coin bank to find all of these old charms inside

a young girl I would bet

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Red Mouse (or Bat?), Fabulous Old Folk Art Ice Fishing Lure antique snuff box with portrait Three holes across center forJust 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