Late 19th Century Transfer Decorated Pearlware ABC Child's Plate, Organ Grinder and Frightened Children Ferdinand Strauss using spruce root to create

using spruce root to create pieces like this

from the Northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state

13 5/8" t x 9 5/8" w x 1/2"

so perhaps is a read of the Bible itself

Pretty good condition

Late 19th Century Transfer Decorated Pearlware ABC Child's Plate, Organ Grinder and Frightened Children Ferdinand Strauss using spruce root to createPart of what I love about antique transfer decorated children's mugs and plates (sometimes collectively referred to as nurseryware) is how strange they often feel, and sometimes really rather dark which tends to feel to me much truer to the experience of childhood than teddy bears and unicorns! This plate, with raised ABC's around the perimeter, has a bit of that about it, with at least one of the children looking fairly traumatized by the approach of