Sill Brothers Pint Ale Measure Jug M296

Original, quality late 19th century, off white pint ale measure jug with a pouring lip and a side handle. This unusual but damaged example is marked to the underside for "Sill Brothers Bidford, Copyright 7922" for the maker and acid etched to the front for "Pint, VR" beneath a crown and "476". The sides are decorated in black on white, one "The Old Falcon Inn Bidford where Shakespear Stayed" and the "Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston Haunted Hillsboro, Hungary Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford Beggarly Broom & Drunken Bidford Shakespear". A very clean and unusual example with an old firing crack to the base otherwise complete and in good order.