MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl One of a handful today

One of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster

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One of the most unique liquor bottles I've ever seen (of course it would be Italian)

but I think more specifically it's about the singular individuality of portraits and simultaneous sense of connection to broader humanity they offer

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl One of a handful todayI 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