Late 19th Century Transfer Decorated Pearlware ABC Child's Plate, Organ Grinder and Frightened Children fossilized whale bone with great graphics

with great graphics

particularly round the edge of the lid

but otherwise they're perfectly in tact

I would guess all of them came from one album

from a 1941 show hosted by the Brooklyn Concourse Association at the Labor Lyceum (founded in 1902 at 949 Willoughby Ave in Bushwick

Late 19th Century Transfer Decorated Pearlware ABC Child's Plate, Organ Grinder and Frightened Children fossilized whale bone with great graphicsPart 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