Set Circus Postcards Showing Dwarfs (1 results)
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. ¶ Harold Pyott. Le plus petit homme du monde. Harold Pyott (1887-1937), a Stockport native, was a well-known British sideshow performer. With a height of ca. 58 cm he was slightly smaller than the famous American Tom Thumb. His nicknames included "Tiny Tim", "The English Midget" and "The Living…Doll". ¶ L'Homme le plus petit du monde vous souhaite une bonne année. Baron Paucci de Messine, 19 ans, 62 centimètres, 7 kilogrammes 800. Baron Paucci, incorrectly advertised as "the smallest man on earth", was apparently employed by Dreamland Circus Side Show at Coney Island. ¶ Nouveau cirque, 251, rue-St-Honore Galerie des Phénomènes, La Poupée Vivante. ¶ M. Bagonghy. Le plus petit ecuyer du monde. Age de 22 ans, son poids: 20 kilos. ¶ M. Bagonghy. Le plus petit ecuyer du monde. Age de 22 ans, son poids: 20 kilos. ¶ Andenken an Prinzessin Elisabeth. Crease in the lower left hand corner. Elisabeth performed in Friedrich Wilhelm (Willy) Siebold's side show in Germany. She died in 1937. ¶ "Tom Pouce II" chez Bostock. Le plus petit adulte du monde. Two creases in lower right and left hand corner. ¶ Chiquita. Bostock Hippodrome. Used as a postcard. The front with annotation: "Souvenir du 1 Avril 1904", sent to a "mademoiselle" in Paris. Crease in the upper right hand corner. Her real name was Alize Espiridiona Cenda del Castillo (1869 1945), a singer and performer from Cuba. Cuban author Antonio Orlando Rodríguez wrote a novel about her. ¶ L'homme miniature, unique au monde entier. The front with an annotation: "Souvenir d'une visite a Bosto[c]k Eugénie". ¶ Minola (with blindstamp of "studio A. Pasta Torino".
