Hand-painted Porcelain Ashtray with Pipe and Matches doll collection Between 1790 and 1830 Betruch

Between 1790 and 1830 Betruch printed the "Bilderbuch für Kinder"

Very 1980s New York

I don't know who made this folk art strongman

relatively humble one was made from cigar box wood I believe

Hand-painted Porcelain Ashtray with Pipe and Matches doll collection Between 1790 and 1830 BetruchI've rarely met an image of a pipe I didn't like to me, they're all Magritte ian fellows speaking to The Treachery of Images! It doesn't hurt that a pipe's a pretty great looking thing, even more so when emitting a trail of smoke and accompanied by a two toned green book of matches tipped in orange! I'd be more inclined to hang this one the wall than use it as an ashtray, but it would be a fun one to set out for pipe smoking company, and or to