Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate antique fifteen game 7 1/8" l x 4

7 1/8" l x 4 1/2" t x 1/2" thick and in good shape

second half  20th century I think

The color is a nice warm caramel and the box is in great shape

) There is also an 1880 list of types of fruit trees and their costs

with the same form and black bristles marked as such on its handle

Let Us Open His Basket (and Take and Hide What We Find) ...Metaphoric for the Moment .c. 1840s Staffordshire Child's Plate antique fifteen game 7 1/8" l x 4A number of 19th century British transfer decorated pieces made for children today, which I really just can't get enough of but each of which I choose for their own specific reasons. Many of these represented games and various sorts of play, sometimes strange or curious ones, but this one struck me as especially timely in a critique of the present moment sort of way: a group of young men (looking quite like commanders or oligarchs in training)