Striking Old Still Bank with Crown of Thorns Corners hand shaped knocker Then a sliding slat on

Then a sliding slat on the recessed side with big carved heart

with a narrow band of striped paper around the perimeter of the lid

) I really love both the silhouettes and the color combinations on these

Most are signed in pencil

Striking Old Still Bank with Crown of Thorns Corners hand shaped knocker Then a sliding slat onI found another old folk art coin bank constructed in a similar manner to this one with "crown of thorns" corners about a year ago, and had never seen another like it until I found this one in Maine this week. To my eye a perfectly concise and very satisfying tramp art box of sorts, which one can also just flip upside down and treat as a closed cube, though perhaps with some secret something stashed inside (and you'd never know the top from the