MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl One of the most unique

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

I know nothing about axes/hatchets and

but I think more specifically it's about the singular individuality of portraits and simultaneous sense of connection to broader humanity they offer

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

Foucault's 1851 pendulum in the rotunda of the National Museum of History in Washington DC

MAY FRIEND, Very Tender and Evocative 1898 Folk Art Still Bank with Cracked Glass Front small bowl One of the most uniqueI 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