MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front wooden barrel shaped box and the silver-plate is in

and the silver-plate is in good shape too

Small loss to the front claw of the rooster and some general stains and toning but overall good condition and very charming

but it's a rare occasion I come across one with a frame as beautifully primitive as this one

18 numbered pages plus endpapers

introduced in 1899

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front wooden barrel shaped box and the silver-plate is inI 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