Blind Man's Buff Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup vintage animal These hand-carved wooden ducks

These hand-carved wooden ducks

is written 75 c

and also Black Mountain College

designed by Lagardo Tackett for Schmid Porcelain in the 1950s

The  brush features what I believe are goat hair bristles stitched to the wooden handle

Blind Man's Buff Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Child's Cup vintage animal These hand-carved wooden ducksI'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