MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front wooden barrel shaped box And so he sleeps under

And so he sleeps under the apple tree and around him linger only loving and tender memories

one imagines it might emit bolts of electricity as it goes

I can't find another of these out there anywhere

18 numbered pages plus endpapers

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

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front wooden barrel shaped box And so he sleeps underI 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