V.L Davis's Handmade Frogs Box with Top Opening, Screened Sides and Carrying Strap tabletop figure with beautiful hand-stitched seams around

with beautiful hand-stitched seams around the edges and down the back

I know nothing about it or where it came from

12 1/2” l x 2 1/8” widest

I've seen a lot of old Mexican ex-voto retablo paintings on tin

My guess is that it is American

V.L Davis's Handmade Frogs Box with Top Opening, Screened Sides and Carrying Strap tabletop figure with beautiful hand-stitched seams aroundSuch fun to find this box in Maine the other day I'd guess an older box adapted 80 or so years ago by a V. L. Davis to house frogs, which I can just imagine him, or her, spending many hours chasing around in order to catch then proudly drop into the cage through the crudely cut hole in the top. Perhaps they were caught to use as bait, but maybe just as pets, with the screens on either side and various drilled holes providing viewing windows as well as