19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch boyscouts it was built to last

it was built to last

The piece of clear tape on reverse is not a patch

but as is all of the carved animals are in good condition

rock features

I believe this early carving is meant to represent a Revolutionary War officer-- tricorne hat

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch boyscouts it was built to lastAnother week another 19th c. child's cup, this one with pink lustre around the rim and detailing the handle, c. 1830s or so I believe, What makes it for me of course is this hand painted bird on green leafy branch, and particularly that the orange body of the bird appears to have been made of a fingerprint. Something about fingerprints captured from one particular person at one particular moment that have time travelled in this case nearly two