Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays globe and stars along with a line deeply

along with a line deeply carved into the frame all the way around

There are a couple of chips to the bone on the Victorian pin cushion and it is likely there was once a lid to the thimble holder

Just a lovely little book

not noticeable unless you are looking for them

almost like a mini Donald Judd

Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays globe and stars along with a line deeplyI wasn't yet around when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson faced off, but I'd love to have met the person who made these clever folk art ashtrays marking the occasions (1952 & 1956), a brilliant early iteration of sample polling among focus groups, I'd say! A relatively simple gesture, but an iconic one, representing radically different ideologies, and rather poignant feeling one now, including as one imagines how different things might be had