The Little Plunderer, Early 19th C. Staffordshire Child's Mug his and her nude bookends Could be hung

Could be hung

is Victorian

and this late 19th century  "Hidden Titles" game contains a smart thirty of them--wonderfully rendered through drawings and hand-written text lithographed onto nice weight cards--giving clues to the names of 30 places around the country and around the world

and color is great

managed perfectly

The Little Plunderer, Early 19th C. Staffordshire Child's Mug his and her nude bookends Could be hungAnother antique Staffordshire child's mug, because I can't get enough of these, though I'm increasingly picky about the ones I like. In this case it's the title "the little plunderer" that drew me because plundering seems as much of the moment as it ever was! The particular plunderer in question here, though, seems not to be this fancified boy but rather the bird perched on his finger though it seems quite likely there's satire at play here, or