MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings a few bent corners inside

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

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

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

5" high x 1 5/8" wide

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings a few bent corners insideI 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