Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays schoolgirl crochet sampler which I now find impossible

which I now find impossible not to hold in mind as I look at this one and which makes this landscape feel anything but naive

Tin measures 4 3/8" t x 3 5/8" in diameter

There are a few unruly bristles but the head of the brush is very full and it is in overall very good condition

but I bought them just because I think they're fantastic looking

with some small scattered scratches to the surface of the stone and one thin hairline crack on the right side near the tail

Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays schoolgirl crochet sampler which I now find impossibleI 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