WARNING: C. 1830s Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup swivel frames 5 1/2" tall x 1

5 1/2" tall x 1 3/8" wide x 3/4" deep

or a pen of vulnerable sheep

with a red marble one is trying to progress from one to the other (and the box text assuring us that it can be done

but it seems like quite an old

WARNING: C. 1830s Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup swivel frames 5 1/2" tall x 1I love an antique Staffordshire transfer decorated child's cup combining text and image, and was struck by this one for the unusualness of its one word caption WARNING giving the whole thing a certain ominousness. These cups were certainly used to impart lessons of sorts, so this feels perhaps akin to picturing a fire drill or duck and cover exercise but compared to similar cups from the period that usually depicted games like 'playing at marbles' or