Patrons Day May Pole Dance Real Photo Post Card, 1915 tin with horse the recipes and proportions for

the recipes and proportions for everything from a Mint Julep to a Manhattan

but I think this old painted horsehair plaster bas-relief of what I assume is a Grecian couple (he's wearing a laurel wreath) makes for a pretty striking object to hang on the wall

The bristles are full and tightly bound

There is a bit of pitting and greening to the brass

Rabbit alone measures 12 5/8" tall

Patrons Day May Pole Dance Real Photo Post Card, 1915 tin with horse the recipes and proportions forI vaguely remember one attempt at a Maypole in my early school days (in the 1970s) but I think it bore very very little resemblance to the completely charming one captured here! I think the details in this photograph from 1915 are just wonderful from the darling dresses, shorts, shoes and hair bows of the participating children, to the be hatted spectators to the right and one assumes teachers to the left keeping a close eye on things, and then more