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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 numberC1196
DescriptionEarthenware. Printed in green in front reads: Franklin's Maxim's. On one side, a scene of ditch diggers: your tools without mittens, remember the cat in gloves catches no mice. Chopping wears away stones & little stokes fell great oaks [sic]. On other side, the front of a jail, reads: For age and want save while you may/ No morning sun lasts all the day/ Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other.
Object number: B2026.0005.29
