Ladies Be Free... c. 1850 Thomas Fell & Co. Child's Cup and Saucer shaker style brush and a weight on the

and a weight on the underside

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)

Some irregularity to the glazing

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

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 and a weight on theOf 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