Earthenware children's mug. Cylindrical with loop handle. Black transfer print with "Franklin's Maxims" inscription and an image of four men in a row boat, the foremost man standing and waving a green flag. Over painted with green, blue, red and yellow.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
"DR. FRANKLIN'S MAXIMS / LOST TIME / IS NEVER FOUND AGAIN. // WHAT WE CALL TIME ENOUGH / ALWAYS / PROVES LITTLE ENOUGH." (Black transfer print)
MJ1970.698
Unknown
2 1/2 (H), 2 5/8 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.698
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