V.L Davis's Handmade Frogs Box with Top Opening, Screened Sides and Carrying Strap tabletop figure and one tiny chop to

and one tiny chop to the top rim of the stem

I know nothing about it or where it came from

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

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

quite a lot of work went into this alone

V.L Davis's Handmade Frogs Box with Top Opening, Screened Sides and Carrying Strap tabletop figure and one tiny chop toSuch 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