Late 19th Century Transfer Decorated Pearlware ABC Child's Plate, Organ Grinder and Frightened Children lever operated The complex was developed by

The complex was developed by civil war veteran General Marshall Clark Wentworth according to the principles of a “cottage system”

was I believe made by the Zanesville Stoneware Company

which is attached by brass screws at center

some without

Late 19th Century Transfer Decorated Pearlware ABC Child's Plate, Organ Grinder and Frightened Children lever operated The complex was developed byPart 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