Title |
To a Tinker. |
Publisher |
[New York] : Wrigley, New York. |
Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
Description |
The tinker holds tools and stands by a work bench. "Soft sawder" [i.e. solder ] is a slang term for manipulative flattery
and originates from a cheap, easy, and less-durable form of joining metal.
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Notes |
Text: RAGGEd wretch! of base-born metal-- / Filthy maker of the kettle, / You I can very plainly see / Can't come soft sawder
over me. / Pipe-smoking, filthy, dirty sot, / Black as the kettle or the pot; / Most noisy slave, most tinkering brute, /
My taste you surely ne'er will suit. / Go, go, you beast, and howl and whin[e]/ You ne'er will be my Valentine.
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
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Pipe smoking -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Tinkers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.545.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 11.44 |