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Tobacco-stoppers have exhibited as much variety of 

 design as pipes have done; but while the decoration of 

 the pipe is a comparatively modern thing, the tobacco- 

 stopper engrossed a large share of the attention of the 

 fanciful workman of the last century. The author of 

 the very clever Paper of Tobacco* says — " This was 

 the only article on which the English smoker prided 

 himself. It was made of various materials — wood, 

 bone, ivory, mother of pearl, and silver ; and the forms 

 which it assumed were exceedingly diversified. Out of 

 a collection of upwards of thirty tobacco-stoppers of 

 different ages, from 16 88 to the present time, the 

 following are the most remarkable : a bear's tooth 

 tipped with silver at the bottom, and inscribed with 

 the name of Captain James Rogers of the Happy 

 Return whaler, 1688 ; Dr Henry Sacheverel in full 

 canonicals carved in ivory, 1710 ; a boot, a horse's hind 

 leg, Punch, and another character in the same Drama, 

 to wit, his Satanic majesty; a countryman with a flail ; 

 a milkmaid, an emblem of Priapus, a bottle, Hope and 

 Anchor, the Marquis of Granby, a greyhound's head 

 and neck, a paviour's rammer, Lord Nelson, the Duke 

 of Wellington, and Bonaparte." To this long list I am 

 enabled to add a few others, of which I offer engrav- 

 ings. Fig. 1, is the earliest in point of date I have ever 

 met with, and represents a soldier in the half armour 

 of the time of James or Charles I., consisting of a 

 cuirass with shoulder-pieces and tassets, as worn in the 



* Published anonymously in 1S39. 



