Late 19th Century Transfer Decorated Pearlware ABC Child's Plate, Organ Grinder and Frightened Children Ferdinand Strauss wound barbed wire ball a

wound barbed wire ball a month or so ago

from the Northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state

I think they're just great looking

which also reminds me of those old mystery boxes where one sticks one's hand inside and feels around at some unknown thing

but how to resist an archer in any form

Late 19th Century Transfer Decorated Pearlware ABC Child's Plate, Organ Grinder and Frightened Children Ferdinand Strauss wound barbed wire ball aPart 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