Over the years I have seen many Tobacco Jars but this one in particular interest me.

It is German and made in the 1870's by the Conta & Boehme factory who produced similar pieces at their factory in Possneck in Thuringia, Germany.

I have owned this jar where the man is reading the Times and the Chicago Tribune and now I have just found this on the Internet, reading the Guardian.

If any one out there has seen one of theses items with a different News Paper please let me know.

This is one I have where he is reading the Times News Paper

I have just bought a book and the dust cover has a picture of this tobacco jar on the cover.

The New Antiques
by Bevis Hillier
Book Club Associated London

Bevis Hillier calls it a late nineteenth - century Dresden porcelain caricature of a Times- reading Englishman.

his house coat is in purple