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Earthenware children's mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Black transfer printed "Franklin's Maxims" inscription flanked by boys carrying containers on the left and men conversing indoors on the right.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
"FRANKLIN'S MAXIMS / Not to oversee / workmen is to leave / them your purse open. / the eye of the master / is worth both his hands" (Black transfer print)
MJ1970.672
Unknown
2 1/4 (H), 2 5/8 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.672
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