C. 1830s Staffordshire "Circulating Library" Child's Transferware Cup pipe Nunavut Territory in Canada and

Nunavut Territory in Canada and I believe dates to the 1980s

so she would have been 12 in 1842

He sat and played in a dream

color of thread is off white / ecru

Signed on the bottom KM

C. 1830s Staffordshire "Circulating Library" Child's Transferware Cup pipe Nunavut Territory in Canada andIt was a great week for finding antique transferware children's cups; this is one of two I am listing, both rare and I think just fabulous this one humorously representing a circulating library, books flying everywhere in a gust of wind. Preceding public libraries, in the 18th and 19th c. circulating libraries were important (for profilt) social and cultural institutions in Britain and America, providing for a subscription fee the rising middle class