Odes to Tippoo the Dog, Wonderful c.1840s Mounted Hand-colored Storybook Engravings, Set of Five vintage bronze it seems like waving an

it seems like waving an FOE flag is not a bad idea at all

I am pretty certain this pipe bowl is 19th century meerschaum (meerschaum is a soft mineral called sepiolite

to whom another of them was inscribed as a gift in 1872

Overall dimensions: 8 1/8" t x 7" in diameter

which seems at once fierce and friendly

Odes to Tippoo the Dog, Wonderful c.1840s Mounted Hand-colored Storybook Engravings, Set of Five vintage bronze it seems like waving anHard not to be charmed by these! With a little research I identified them as five of six hand colored engravings on letterpress from an early 19th century (c. 1810 20s) children's book by I. Baker titled My Tippoo which someone long ago carefully trimmed, preserving images and text, and mounted to backing paper (that backing paper is old and feels pretty much of one with the cut pages.) So five portraits ready for framing of the marvelous, faultless,