MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front wooden barrel shaped box where they were filled with

where they were filled with turpentine by F

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

one imagines it might emit bolts of electricity as it goes

Signed on both sides

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front wooden barrel shaped box where they were filled withI 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