Blind Man's Buff Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup antique turned blonde wood box On the bottom of the

On the bottom of the backside

as if one might store a little something inside

and the lower portion is what has been framed

and his profile is pretty terrific too

both of which make perfect sense

Blind Man's Buff Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup antique turned blonde wood box On the bottom of theI've recently fallen deeply in love with English 19th century transfer ware combining text and illustration, like this pearlware Staffordshire child's cup, c. 1830s 40s, I believe. Staffordshire produced a whole series of child's cups featuring children playing games (leap frog, shuttlecock, playing at marbles, etc.) this one pictures "Blind Man's Buff" (yes, Buff, meaning "small push, which preceeded Bluff as the name for the tag like game, also