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Four trade cards depicting characters from Patience and quotes from the opera: Bunthorne ("In a rapt ecstatic way"), Jane ("I am soulfully intense), Grosvenor ("A very daisy") and Saphir (How earnestly precious"). Each has overprint in advertising…

Silk sachet with image of Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Peep-Bo: a souvenir of a production of The Mikado at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

Small box with color lithographed cover for Little Buttercup's Toy Clothes-Pin. Cover features child actress in bonnet with basket. Several wooden clothes-pins in box.

Small white ceramic mug with H.M.S. Pinafore design, featuring Sir Joseph Porter, Captain Corcoran, and Little Buttercup in foreground, captioned "H.M.S. Pinafore"

Small white ceramic mug with decal image based on advertising trade card using children's H.M.S. Pinafore design. Two characters, Little Buttercup and sailor, captioned "What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever!"

Small white ceramic mug with decal image based on advertising trade card using children's H.M.S. Pinafore design. Two characters, Dick Deadeye and Captain Corcoran, captioned "Kind Captain I've important information, sing hey the galland (sic)…

Small white ceramic mug with decal image based on Gold Flake tobacco trade card. Three nautical characters foreground, captioned "Oh! I am the ruler of the Queen's navee, and ready for any emergencee."

Small white ceramic mug with decal image based on advertising trade card using children's H.M.S. Pinafore design. Three characters, Sir Joseph Porter and two girls, captioned "Whose praise Great Britain always chants, and so do his cousins and his…

Bisque figurine of three women in (from left to right: pink, white, and blue) kimonos holding closed fans near their faces. Based on photograph of members of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's original New York cast of The Mikado.

Color lithograph card depicting nine characters from H.M.S. Pinafore on shipboard with two huge spools of cotton thread. The Captain, center, asserts that he never "used anything equal to Willimantic six cord spool cotton."