Jack the Ripper: A 19thC Horn Beaker; ‘Fair Maid Beware Whitechapel 1888’ sub-Art & Sculpture Utterly delightful

Utterly delightful

The family that owned this piece of furniture originally would have acquired it with the idea of it making them appear wealthier

Now demolished

making it soft and decayed

and the desperate battle in the atlantic that led

Jack the Ripper: A 19thC Horn Beaker; ‘Fair Maid Beware Whitechapel 1888’ sub-Art & Sculpture Utterly delightfulOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1888 Diameter: 2. 5 Height: 4 The tactile beaker or cup, of typical form, crafted entirely in horn, and primitively engraved with the words fair maid beware whitechapel 1888, surviving from late Victorian England. The piece is in sound overall condition with some chips to the rim and nibbles to the base as photographed. The base shows some further engravings which are hard to