Earthenware children's mug. Round-rimmed base and loop handle. Black transfer print with "Franklin's Maxim's" inscription and two scenes. On one side, a man rides a white horse towards a bridge, with three men on foot behind him. On the other side is a covered wagon atop a bridge.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
"FRANKLIN'S MAXIM'S / Want of care / does us more damage / than want of knowledge // For want of a nail the shoe was lost / and for want of a shoe / the Horse was lost" (Black transfer print)
MJ1970.353
Unknown
2 3/8 (H), 2 5/8 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.353
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