Striking Old Still Bank with Crown of Thorns Corners card game a collection of several photographs

a collection of several photographs

dated 1826

There were a few tiny glass ones too

but I like it just as it is now

base is 14 3/8" across and 5 1/2" deep and in excellent vintage condition

Striking Old Still Bank with Crown of Thorns Corners card game a collection of several photographsI found another old folk art coin bank constructed in a similar manner to this one with "crown of thorns" corners about a year ago, and had never seen another like it until I found this one in Maine this week. To my eye a perfectly concise and very satisfying tramp art box of sorts, which one can also just flip upside down and treat as a closed cube, though perhaps with some secret something stashed inside (and you'd never know the top from the