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Introduction
Every home should have one
How did they do that?
Putting on the style

Creamware mug

A photograph of a mug where the design creates a different image depending on what way round it is viewed.

This mug is transfer-printed with 'Courtship' when full and 'Matrimony' when empty (and turned upside down). The happy faces of 'Courtship' turn into sad ones when the beer is drunk and you turn the mug over.

Given by Mrs Kidd, 1952.