Roast Mortem Cast

ALT An ivory coloured, carved vesta pot (a small pot for matches) with a nude woman on it. She has her legs open and her dress pulled up. She’s smiling. Her Vulva is red and swollen looking. I’d definitely see a doctor. Her Vulva is actually a hole to hold the matches. The round lid is off the pot and laid next to it. It has a rough underside to strike the matches on. There are four matches in front of the pot.

ALT Side on view of the Vesta pot. Now there is a match in the hole - which is actually in the little figure’s Vulva. Looks like she’s having Sex with a chair leg. I’ve gotta hand it to the creator, it is a pretty funny (if utterly demented) item.

ALT “Gleet” (1915). A matchstick covered in gonorrhoeal pus. A case of VD would see a soldier sent to hospital for up to four weeks. Men infected with gonorrhoea were known to put matchsticks inside their urethra to collect the pus (a gleet) and sell it to anyone who wanted to infect themselves by rubbing it inside their urethra.