Early Staffordshire Franklin Maxims Child's Cup, Make Hay While the Sun Shines painted antique carving also known as a "grenade

also known as a "grenade

The perfect gift for the reader-tippler

I'm sure this Inuit carving

The blue in which they are printed is makes the whole thing feel all the more mystical

It took me a while

Early Staffordshire Franklin Maxims Child's Cup, Make Hay While the Sun Shines painted antique carving also known as a "grenadeI'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 was the text reading "Make hay while the sun shines An hour today is worth two tomorrow." A wise man was Franklin, and what a good bit of wisdom to impart to a child, and to