234 TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGAPvS, ETC. 



last era of plate armour. Fig. 2, lias evidently belonged 

 to some devoted royalist, and represents the bust of 

 Charles I. crowned and decorated with the collar of 

 the Garter. Fig. 3, belonged to one of " the Oppo- 

 sition," and is surmounted with a bust of Cromwell in 

 a richly decorated cuirass ; it bears on the reverse the 

 lion shown in Fig. 4, which supported the Arms of 

 England during the Protectorate. Both appear to 

 have been cut from a medal, or a thin plate of silver, 

 and soldered back to back ; the shaft of the stopper is 

 hollow, unscrewing at the neck, and allowing the pick 

 to be taken out (as shown in Fig. 4), to clear the pipe 

 of ashes. Fig. 5, is a ring-stopper, to be worn upon 

 the finger as an ordinary ring, the stopper concealed in 

 the hand ; it can thus be easily turned round for use 

 when required, and does not run the risk of being lost 

 or mislaid by the smoker. The clergyman in our cut 

 p. 130, carries one on his finger ; and there is a 

 humorous allusion to them in Hudibras (Part. ii. 

 canto 3), and to the symbol which astronomers use to 

 denote one of the planets. 



" Bless us ! quoth he, 



It is a planet now I see ; 

 And, if I err not, by his proper 



Figure, that's like tobacco-stopper, 

 It should be Saturn ! " 



Fig. 6, is of silver, and ingeniously formed of two 

 pipes braced together, and serving as a holder to a 

 stopper and pick, which screws between them. The 

 stopper is formed of a twopenny piece of Queen Anne. 



