Creamware jug printed in black with 'Britain's Glory', 'The Spinning Machine'. The man gestures to the small boy below the slogan "Liberty to the Sons of Britain". The small boy is one of the unfortunate children who worked removing debris from under the moving spinning machines and were often maimed or killed in the process. Not much liberty for them. Other labels wish success to the cotton tree, to commerce, and to the cotton spinners.Thomas Baddeley was active as engraver and black-printer in Hanley, Staffordshire, by 1800, and was still described as an engraver there in 1817.

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