180 TOBACCO STOPPERS. 
Happy Return whaler, 1688; Dr. Henry Sacheverel in full 
canonicals, carved in ivory, 1710; a boat, 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 Priopus; 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. 
The tobacco-stopper was carried in the pocket or attached to 
a ring worn on the finger.” 
In Butler’s Hudibras it is alluded to in connection with . 
‘ the astronomer’s sign. 
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Bless us! quoth he, 
It is’ a planet now I seé; 
And if I err not, by his proper 
Figure that’s like tobacco-stopper, 
It should be Saturn!” 
In James Boswell’s “ Shrubs of Parnassus” (1760) a 
description in verse of the various kinds of tobacco-stoppers 
is given: 
*Q! let me grasp thy waist, be thou of wood 
Or levigated steel, for well *tis known 
Thy habit is disease. In iron clad 
Sometimes thy feature roughen to the sight, 
And oft transparent art thou seen in glass, 
Portending frangibility. The son 
Of laboring mechanism here displays 
Exuberance of skill. The curious knot, 
The motley flourish winding down the sides, 
And freaks of fancy pour upon the view 
Their complicated charms, and as they please, 
Astonish. While with glee thy touch I feel, 
No harm my fingers dread. No fractured pipe 
Task, or splinters aid, wherewith to press 
The rising ashes down. Oh! bless my hand, 
Chief when thou com’st with hollow circle crowned 
With sculptured signet, bearing in thy womb 
The treasured Cork-screw. Thus a triple service 
In firm alliance may’st thou boast.” 
Tobacco-stoppers were often made of wood from some 
relic like a celebrated tree or mansion which gave additional 
