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Organ-grinder tweets for November 2017

More monkey mess from the peripatetic Homerton/Hackney barrel organ.

Rats/mice bearing the cat to his grave in Tarragona, anticipating Russian prints of the scene.

The 1660 Foire de Saint-Germain

Featuring castanets, monkeys, marionettes, and human and tortoise castles.

Balthasar Nebot, The Forze D'Ercole; the Castellani acrobats in a Venetian piazza.

Organ grinders and monkey and marmot migration

Any proto-ecologists don’t seem to have cared very much.

The recto of the Anglicised business card.

Noisy buskers used to drown out the sounds of murder

But were organ-grinders really complicit in the 1817 killing at Rodez of the French politician Fualdès, as the translation suggests, or were the vielles hurdy-gurdies, as you’d expect?

Witness Mrs Manson (sic) confronts murderers Messrs. Bastide and Jausion, heads still attached.

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  • Mrs. Brassey: A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam'. Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1879) £135.00
  • John Richard Green: A History of the English People, 8 vols of 8 (1895-1896) £99.00
  • Maud Edith Cunnington: Woodhenge (1929) £87.30
  • James E. Doyle: A Chronicle of England, B.C. 55-A.D. 1485 (1864) £180.00
  • Martin A.C. Hinton: Rivers and lakes: the story of their development (1924) £36.00

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