19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test The box also shows lots

The box also shows lots of wear

with what I'd guess is a storefront behind them

executed in gray that runs lighter to darker in shade and then with terrific red accents along the bottom edges

One of my very favorite things found at Brimfield—beautifully crafted

but think it's a pretty fun piece

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch intelligence test The box also shows lotsAnother 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