souvenir / Reading Gaol, 1916

Prison mug brought by Darrell Figgis from Reading Jail, 1916, as a souvenir. Ordinary type prisoner's mug. Pottery mug, with white glaze, circular base. Printed in black on one side on a band, 'Prison Commission', a broad arrow within this band. Painted black on the base. Stamped with a crown over "P.C." over "O" over a terrestrial globe on which on a band is the word "MINTONS". Below these "LEADLESS GLAZE". To left a six-pointed star.;