Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer shaker style brush He's threaded with what I

He's threaded with what I believe is his original string

Certainly they bear a very strong resemblance to the animals of Swiss toy designer and maker Antonio Vitali (who also designed many toys produced by Creative Playthings)

holding the gull firmly in place

just a bit of imperfectness to the application of the red ink/paint

which one feels feels like one should use to see into the souls of tiny things

Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer shaker style brush He's threaded with what IOf 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