You could find that one at 2AM!
I'd have gone straight for the choochoo too. My late dad was a rail nut, and the coal lump doesn't fall far from the clinker pile.
If it was American I'd think 19th century. They're still being made here, and it's hard to guess about the real age. That said, it's begging for...
Just as well it happened after Dec 5; St Nicholas would be bankrupted paying out 150 years' worth of candy and toys for all of that.
Mudlarks are forever fishing those pipes out of the mud on the Thames embankments. I think they were everywhere.
It's a fun painting - clay pipe and a pint and a happy face, but I wouldn't pay that much unless I had a bar to hang him in.
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