Robert Tipney Presented by James Chipperfield

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This handbill is from 1867 and is part of the British Museum Collection. "Unequalled novelty from Westminster Hall, London, will arrive in this town on the [space for insertion of the date] of this month. He will pass his arm through the gauge as pictured above. The public of this town and its vicinity are most respectfully informed that a wonderful dispay [sic] of the works of nature will be exhibited here for a short time only. Mr. J. Chipperfield begs to inform the public that he has entered into an expensive engagement with Mr. Tipney, the skeleton man alive, born in the year 1841, and weighs only forty-nine pounds! A native of March, in Cambridgeshire … Admission. - Ladies and gentlemen, 6d; working class 3d. The reduced prices are in order that the working classes may enjoy the treat"

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