Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer bavarian I love it more for

I love it more for the wear

Part of the English company Britains' "Mammoth Circus" set

a little scattered light foxing/spotting

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

with hand-painted lit cigarette on top

Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer bavarian I love it more forOf 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