Early Staffordshire Franklin's Maxims Child's Cup, Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks vase with bird including Ted Berrigan

including Ted Berrigan

I believe this one dates to the 1940s or so and features a three mast ship with American flag raised at the stern

but it might shine up a bit)

" which seems perhaps an incorrect note after the fact

but I had a feeling about it

Early Staffordshire Franklin's Maxims Child's Cup, Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks vase with bird including Ted BerriganI'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, which I found together with another I just listed, and both of which I'd never seen before was the text reading "Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks By diligence and patience the