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Description: | A bawdy object or figurine, possibly a pipe tamper dating from the 18th or 19th century. It is made from lead alloy and is in the shape of a pair of naked female legs spread apart to show the vagina. This example is uniface only depicting a woman's legs, but other examples are known which show a woman's legs on one face, and a man's legs and genitals on the other, for example IOW-736146. The Isle of Wight find is also different because it is made of copper alloy. A more similar parallel is NCL-DAC295. There is also a similar one in the January 2009 Searcher magazine.Erotic objects are fairly frequent 18th and 19th century objects and include tokens and pipe tampers as well as these single sided plaques or figurines. It is possible that they all had a function for cleaning out pipes, but being made of lead, it is perhaps more likely that they were lucky charms or amulets.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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