MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl A few spots/stains and a

A few spots/stains and a light crease at lower right

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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 A few spots/stains and aI 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