Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays globe and stars Just a lovely little book

Just a lovely little book

along with a line deeply carved into the frame all the way around

and the other of a girl offering  treats to a young wanderer

There are a couple of chips to the bone on the Victorian pin cushion and it is likely there was once a lid to the thimble holder

Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays globe and stars Just a lovely little bookI wasn't yet around when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson faced off, but I'd love to have met the person who made these clever folk art ashtrays marking the occasions (1952 & 1956), a brilliant early iteration of sample polling among focus groups, I'd say! A relatively simple gesture, but an iconic one, representing radically different ideologies, and rather poignant feeling one now, including as one imagines how different things might be had