MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl It should not be hard

It should not be hard to pull the stitches attaching it to the fabric if desired

One of the most unique liquor bottles I've ever seen (of course it would be Italian)

One of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster

To my eye quite a satisfying object

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MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl It should not be hardI love this thing. When I first saw it (at an antiques show in Maine), I read "May Friend" as a sort of descriptor rather than as a girl's name, and, because it struck me as looking very much like a cage stage, with the glass providing a view into the interior, and this excellent lettering closely framing the glass like titles, I imagined a cricket or a butterfly or a lightening bug as the "May Friend" this object might welcome and house. (And with no