What Can Woman Do? | T. S. Arthur | 1854T. S. Arthur was a Victorian author and member of the temperance movement best known for his book Ten Nights in a Bar Room and What I Saw There. He wasnt the most brilliant writer, but he was prolific and popular, focusing on realistic stories of everyday people that serve as moral lessons. Hes good to read if you want to get to know the general tone and tenor of middle class Victorian values, especially as regards the role of women, who were expected

Lovely art nouveau brass pin dish in the shape of a siren luxuriating in a pool of water

I love everything about this unique pyrography piece: The beautiful art nouveau design

no earlier than 1830s

Memoirs like this were a popular form of “consolation literature” during the 19th century

I‘m pretty sure this is supposed to be a bud vase

Early 20th century antique tertiary relic

Measures about 11” tall with a base 4” in diameter

There were supposed to be over 100 of these engravings done after his painting

Measures about 14” tall and is in very good condition

most popular during the 1860s

so you can see some tin peeking through at the extreme corners of the bottom

When viewed from the side