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Earthenware children's mug. Cylindrical with loop handle. Green transfer printed "Franklin's Maxims" inscription flanked by a scene with three standing men at left, and a scene with one seated man and one standing man at right.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
"FRANKLIN'S MAXIMS / He that goes a borrowing / goes a sorrowing // better to go to bed / supperless than / rise in debt. (Green transfer print)
MJ1970.1023
Unknown
2 5/8 (H), 2 7/8 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.1023
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