MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl To my eye quite a

To my eye quite a satisfying object

A few spots/stains and a light crease at lower right

I'd say this little piece really captures a sense of "bear-ness"

One of the most unique liquor bottles I've ever seen (of course it would be Italian)

I know nothing about axes/hatchets and

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl To my eye quite aI 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