Funny Little Pair of Old Ink Drawn Cartoon Characters - Jiggs and Maggie British steam liner (Plate not included

(Plate not included

just below that fabulous bowtie and in between the floating shirt buttons-- what a perfect distillation of the feel of a heart a'flutter in springtime

so that decorative surface details become less sharp

with a bit of irregularity to the glaze on one side

perhaps most of all this orange figure in the foreground--apparently being spewed into existence by the larger

Funny Little Pair of Old Ink Drawn Cartoon Characters - Jiggs and Maggie British steam liner (Plate not includedWhat really sold me on this pair was the profile expression and posture of the woman, with hand on her hip, though this funny little gangster looking man, I'd guess with a cigar in his mouth, is pretty fun, too. I've learned from a helpful customer that they are characters Jiggs and Maggie, from "Bringing Up Father" an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus, which launched in 1913. (More below). These iterations were certainly drawn