MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings with those fallen limbs spread

with those  fallen limbs spread across the roof

13 x 8 in (32

which will become my favorites--but the more time I've spent with this one

revealing different aspects across 360 degrees

a few bent corners inside

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings with those fallen limbs spreadI 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