Intemperance Produces Starvation, Dramatic and Timely 19th C. Transferware Plate chip carved frame looking like a bell

looking like a bell

This is the second of these great brass cheese wedge pen holders I've had in the shop--how not to feel a little happier with this on the desk

Remember them who sent you this"

with some shot marks on the top of the back

Intemperance Produces Starvation, Dramatic and Timely 19th C. Transferware Plate chip carved frame looking like a bellThis one struck me for its highly dramatic but also very matter of fact message: Intemperance Produces Starvation. And while clearly the intemperance here refers to drinking with the source of misery man at center holding a bottle in his hand it seems to me quite resonant now when considering intemperance in the broader sense (i. e. intemperate leaders and wielders of power producing starvation both literal and figurative.) There is a whole history of