The Little Plunderer, Early 19th C. Staffordshire Child's Mug small plate and then this great splint

and then this great splint flower spreading across the top

(Erzgebirge cow sold separately

I found this one at Brimfield in the booth of a delightful seller who always has charming things

it is filled with some 30 colored pencil drawings of planes "designed and drawn"--"free hand

The Little Plunderer, Early 19th C. Staffordshire Child's Mug small plate and then this great splintAnother antique Staffordshire child's mug, because I can't get enough of these, though I'm increasingly picky about the ones I like. In this case it's the title "the little plunderer" that drew me because plundering seems as much of the moment as it ever was! The particular plunderer in question here, though, seems not to be this fancified boy but rather the bird perched on his finger though it seems quite likely there's satire at play here, or