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there is wear and aging to the painting and paper
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strangely and evocatively elongated like a late-day shadow
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Early Staffordshire Franklin Maxims Child's Cup, Make Hay While the Sun Shines painted antique carving there is wear and agingI'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
