Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays sun rubber but I think the tiles

but I think the tiles are really gorgeous

I'd guess a school girl creation dating to the early 20th century or so

I'll never say no to a folky carved shoe

6 1/4" x 4 3/4"

Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays sun rubber but I think the tilesI 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