Middlesex-Spence’s D&H-1121, with the politically charged Pandorra’s Breeches reverse.

With the popular macabre obverse showing Thomas Spence, Thomas More and Thomas Paine (‘The Three Thomas’s”) hanging from the gallows, here mated to the Pandora’s Breeches reverse depicting the pair of burning trousers (‘breeches’) stuffed with straw that were planted above a lavatory in the 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 nice Choice Unc. with pleasing chocolate brown color.

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