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Date1830-1860
Terms
- Mugs
- Ceramic
- Staffordshire
Dimensions5.08 × 5.08 cm (2 × 2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. William Kussin, B. Alcott Pratt and F.W. Pratt in memory of their mother, Mrs. F. Alcott Pratt (1935)
Object numberC1168
DescriptionEarthenware. On front is written: "Franklin's Maxim's/ Industry needs not wish and he that lives upon hope will die fasting---There are no gains without pains then help hands for I have no lands. On either side are pictures drawn in gray, and colored green, red and yellow and representing the planting of a tree and rolling a lawn by the sea shore.