Early Staffordshire Franklin Maxims Child's Cup, Make Hay While the Sun Shines mid-century bookends It takes a small bit

It takes a small bit of effort but the key still works to open and close it fine

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and the watermark date do make one wonder if it could have been the original source

) Bound in a simple black pebbled morocco binding

" Brown grew up in Boston's Brookline neighborhood

Early Staffordshire Franklin Maxims Child's Cup, Make Hay While the Sun Shines mid-century bookends It takes a small bitI'll never get over my affection for antique Staffordshire child's cups, which I love for their forms as well as for their transfer decoration, hand colored in this case. But what sold me on this early (c. 1820s 30s) and rare one one of a number made featuring Franklin's Maxims was the text reading "Make hay while the sun shines An hour today is worth two tomorrow." A wise man was Franklin, and what a good bit of wisdom to impart to a child, and to