MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings This vase features the original

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

Structurally super sound with a nice patina

just right to my eye that only the feet of two figures made it into the Polaroid

a few bent corners inside

but have since learned it was quite the institution--started by Earl Rebman in 1909 (making candy at home for holiday sale) and by 1919 selling Christmas merch from a wheelbarrow in Penn Square

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings This vase features the originalI 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