A papier-mâché novelty cottage loaf with pop-up Joseph Chamberlain, circa 1905, a composition headed Chamberlain with monocle wearing black suit, pops out of realistic load —3 ½in. (9cm.) high - this pokes fun at policy that Chamberlain introduced as Colonial Secretary. His campaigns for the imposition of tariffs upon trade with countries outside the British Empire, in order to favour imperial trade. He became notorious for using two loaves of bread as visual aids during a speech in Birmingham, arguing that a loaf baked under tariff reform would be no more expensive than one baked under free trade. The phrase ‘Birmingham bred’ is a pun on this.