Loving Companions, Huge Bright White 19th C. Staffordshire Transferware Loving Cup tall lidded copper box I love it because I

I love it because I like to think Eugene was applying his Froebel kindergarten paper folding skills to making it (the paper from which it was made certainly suggests that was so)

Nürnberg (Nuremberg) in 1882

Sold as a PAIR

It really did take me a mirror to decipher the backwards writing on this old wooden t-square

I do think they are sterling

Loving Companions, Huge Bright White 19th C. Staffordshire Transferware Loving Cup tall lidded copper box I love it because ISome things photograph well and some things are vastly reduced in translation a good part of the beauty of this c. 1830s Staffordshire "loving cup" is its grand scale, more the size of a trophy than a mug and indeed loving cups (two handled, typically oversized vessels) were are often awarded to victors of competitions (well suited for lifting overhead!). I of course am partial to the "loving" aspect a cup to be shared by two, taking turns, one handle