MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings but have since learned it

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

Structurally super sound with a nice patina

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

with those  fallen limbs spread across the roof

This vase features the original Pottery Craft sticker (though worn) and is in excellent vintage condition

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front biographical drawings but have since learned itI 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