Creepy 1920 cigarette lighter in shape of a woman's head

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bklynchris

OK, for realz? I was incensed (yes, pun intended) at the thought it was a woman’s head, but the thought of it being a boy’s head for incense at mass…please tell me you’re joking. Yes, its come to this, I do not know where the gall of the RC Church begins nor where it ends.
- falz
  
  are you really on the fence about whether or not to believe that?
blueelm

Nah… it’s just an early prototype of the real doll for hardcore masochists.
Anonymous

sexual connotations briefly aside, what sort of heat element is that? it doesn’t look like a typical resistive (e.g. range top) element. and is the element always on? shouldn’t pinching the nose be a switch or some-such?

ok, back to “it’s a female no it’s a male no consider 20s womans hairstyles etc”
Chris Tucker

Worst. Sextoy. Ever.

EVER!
ribott

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sometimes it isn’t.
spocko

Come on baby light my fire.
WhatWouldWilsonDoBlog

maybe I should have my captors insert one of these in my mouth….i would be cooler?
Nash Rambler

Didn’t that gaping maw almost destroy the Enterprise once?
erratic

ribott’s freudian comment is correct, but that’s not a woman’s head, it’s a young boy’s head and it was made for lighting incense at mass.
- Gloria
  
  I was going to say that it didn’t look quite like a woman’s head to me.