Rare 19th Century Lustreware Ale Measure with Transfers box of safety pins to hold a child's hot

to hold a child's hot water bottle--which it very much still could do

band-aids or whatever

or made by a fish monger (my guess) or to hang in a cobbler's shop

Just luscious

Rare 19th Century Lustreware Ale Measure with Transfers box of safety pins to hold a child's hotI really love antique children's cups incorporating transfer text, but this is the first cup without a handle I've found, which, given the poem on one side, it didn't take me too long to figure out is an ale measure! I can't find its match out there, but I did find a few lustreware graduated sets of three, so perhaps this was once part of a set, 19th c. British I am sure. I love the combination of drinking poem on one side paired with image of mother