c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug interdisciplinary book and a hairline split extending

and a hairline split extending from it

I've been stalking antique prints/book pages documenting astronomical phenomenon of late

as if toward a rolling ball coming in from the side

I have not attempted to polish this as I like the patina

as documented in detail photos

c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug interdisciplinary book and a hairline split extendingIn recent years we've see a renewed espousing of the benefits of beef tea or bone broth, but Armour's Chicago was making it and distributing it widely at the very beginning of the 1900s in ohotos I've including an ad for it c. 1902. Philip D. Armour, a native of New York State, made a substantial fortune in the pork packing business in Milwaukee in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, then In 1875 moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co.