18th Century Scavenger

I frequently find 18th century-related items around the university. Such finds include Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer and The Vicar of Wakefield (a double whammy), a 1798 edition of the Greek New Testament, Richardson's Pamela (just found yesterday), an art-deco edition of Boswell's Life (published in 1931), Great Expectations, and so on. My favourite salvage, however, is this nineteenth-century porcelain dish, illustrating Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman from TS:

"I know not what, has got into this eye of mine ... Do look into it--said she. Honest soul! thou didst look into it with as much innocency of heart, as ever a child looked into a raree-shew-box*" (Volume VIII, Chap. XXIV)

There is likely no value, but I keep it for sentimental reasons.

*A raree-shew box was an 18th century-style peep-show, of sorts.