MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings Structurally super sound with a

Structurally super sound with a nice patina

with those  fallen limbs spread across the roof

” I've snatched up--it is really a wonderful book

This vase features the original Pottery Craft sticker (though worn) and is in excellent vintage condition

(There were these almost trompe l'oeil style painting of cats and dog on panels it keeps reminding me of

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings Structurally super sound with 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