Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer bavarian and with a cloth hanger

and with a cloth hanger mounted on the back

I am not entirely sure if it is a cucumber or a cactus dancing with the flowers

I love it more for the wear

I assume from the tugging of some not so small fish

with hand-painted lit cigarette on top

Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer bavarian and with a cloth hangerOf 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