Rare 19th Century Lustreware Ale Measure with Transfers box of safety pins and definitely pretty old

and definitely pretty old

or made by a fish monger (my guess) or to hang in a cobbler's shop

Aesthetically

While the weaving itself is in terrific shape

jigger itself is 1 1/2" across

Rare 19th Century Lustreware Ale Measure with Transfers box of safety pins and definitely pretty oldI really love antique children's cups incorporating transfer text, but this is the first cup without a handle I've found, which, given the poem on one side, it didn't take me too long to figure out is an ale measure! I can't find its match out there, but I did find a few lustreware graduated sets of three, so perhaps this was once part of a set, 19th c. British I am sure. I love the combination of drinking poem on one side paired with image of mother