Middlesex D&H-1110 variety.

With the popular End of Pain obverse motif here married to the curious PANDORA’S BREECHES reverse depicting the pair of burning trousers (‘breeches’) stuffed with straw that were planted above a lavatory in the English House of Commons in May of 1792. 

The motto PANDORA’S BREECHES was coined as a warning against political activism at that time, as Pandora’s box had become a common image for the French Revolution.

Linking Pandora to those breeches (though Thomas Paine was believed responsible) implied something as disruptive and unnatural as a woman wearing trousers at that time.

The piece itself is a lovely gem with considerable faded mint red on both the obverse and reverse.

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