A Rare 18thC English Tavern Leather Ale Vessel c.1760 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus anything draped tends to indicate

anything draped tends to indicate mourning

and then was revived

he threw it into the entrance to the flats and quickly washed his hands before moving on

as Patrick Süskind so famously wrote

A Rare 18thC English Tavern Leather Ale Vessel c.1760 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus anything draped tends to indicateOrigin: English Period: George II III Provenance: Aspley House, Aspley Guise, Buckinghamshire, England Date: c. 1760 Diameter: 10. 5 at spout Height: 6 The very scarce and interesting burnished leather ale vessel of studded near circular form with wooden base, the seam forming a pouring spout, and formerly of Aspley House, Aspley Guise, Buckinghamshire, England. Condition is fine, with the leather having taken on a beautiful honest patina, with the