Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays schoolgirl crochet sampler emphasizing the wake at his

emphasizing the wake at his knees and distant ocean horizon at his waist

Photos show all of the counters included

or spread across the surface of a mid-century credenza

8 3/4" l x 1 5/16" w x 3/8" thick and in very good condition

Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays schoolgirl crochet sampler emphasizing the wake at hisI 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