19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch handmade clay marbles established as the Independent Order

established as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1819

with this long

4" t x 1 3/4" w x 2 1/4" d

and a few stains

but this is the sort of Santa I'd be happy to see year round

19th C. Lustreware Child's Cup with Hand-painted Thumbprint Bird and Branch handmade clay marbles established as the Independent OrderAnother week another 19th c. child's cup, this one with pink lustre around the rim and detailing the handle, c. 1830s or so I believe, What makes it for me of course is this hand painted bird on green leafy branch, and particularly that the orange body of the bird appears to have been made of a fingerprint. Something about fingerprints captured from one particular person at one particular moment that have time travelled in this case nearly two