Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer bavarian The spine is much worn

The spine is much worn but the stitched binding is holding together

with hand-painted lit cigarette on top

with the identity of the particularly spirit described less through the form of the body but rather through the applied color and additional decoration (feathers

a little scattered light foxing/spotting

and with a cloth hanger mounted on the back

Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer bavarian The spine is much wornOf course it's the "Ladies All I Pray Make Free" that sold me on this child's sized antique transferware cup and saucer, made, I've learned, by Thomas Fell & Co., Newcastle England, c. 1850 as per one of the same, in black, held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. There's a bit of debate out there as to whether this should be classified as an early women's suffrage item; I think most likely it was not actually intended as such, but