Fantastic c. 1830 Ink Drawing of Lamia with Verses, Riddles, Numbers antique chamber pot Nice and easy

Nice and easy

originally made to house cigarettes

which typically appears on a separate line above the S

and the printed pattern around the top is paper litho

and he struck gold too

Fantastic c. 1830 Ink Drawing of Lamia with Verses, Riddles, Numbers antique chamber pot Nice and easyThis! Its the fantastic drawing that makes this one of my very favorite pieces of paper Ive had in my possession, depicting what I first took for mermaids but believe may rather represent Lamiaa mythological child eating monster and, in later tradition, regarded as a type of night haunting spirit. The hand written text surrounding the drawingbearing the signature of a Lucy B. Howard, and which my favorite handwriting expert dates to 1830 or so, with