Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer naughty figure this beautifully carved green soapstone

this beautifully carved green soapstone ladies leg

but I wanted it

--hand thrown porcelain lidded vessel

I love to imagine the delight OH Whitman must have taken in using these (and what a perfect name)

I really love the long

Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer naughty figure this beautifully carved green soapstoneOf 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