A (Much Loved) Token of Love, Scarce Early (1820s) Creamware Child's Mug with Sweet Old Repairs Mid-Land Novelty Co and kind of like how

and kind of like how the mix of some glued and some individual blocks informs the patterns one might make

of the years and generations passed since these initials were carved

This basket is in very good condition

14 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 and in very good condition

"By Your Daily Conduct Your Character is Formed" on the threes

A (Much Loved) Token of Love, Scarce Early (1820s) Creamware Child's Mug with Sweet Old Repairs Mid-Land Novelty Co and kind of like howYou know by now how fond I am of early transfer decorated children's mugs, though I've gotten increasingly particular looking for especially early ones, or examples I haven't seen before, or ones with a special sort of resonance all of which are the case with this one! This small creamware cup, another example of which I'd not seen before but have found one reference to since, dates to the 1820s if not a little earlier, with the hand painted color