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Albert DuNeef’s Morbid Ululation ‘Beyond the Weeping Skies of Home’
Beyond the weeping skies of home! Tossed! Alone! Abandoned from the familial embrace. A handsome, slim-hipped hunter Brought low To...
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Aug 28, 20231 min read
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London & The High Class Oddities
From ‘The Autobiography of Colson T. Turnpenny’
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Aug 27, 20234 min read
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Influential Artists 1878–1902
Rodney Sideswipe, known for his occult pastels & oils, including: ‘The Living Portrait of Mandrake Pan’ & ‘The Illusive Bear’. Dutch...
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Aug 27, 20231 min read
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Top of the Bill at The St Aubrey Playhouse (March 7th-12th 1898)
The St. Aubrey Playhouse The Strand, London Presents! Evenings of SONG, LAUGHTER, & DRAMATIC TRAGEDY! Monday March 7th! MIMSY SPARKLES!...
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Aug 20, 20231 min read
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‘Upon Sneezing, Things That I Have Found Up My Nose’
By Jasper Eely, the Big Headed Kid
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Aug 13, 20231 min read
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The Greatest Sideshow on Earth
When I was a kid living in the slums of New York I once had to eat a rat to survive. It was dirty and sour tasting.
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Aug 11, 20234 min read
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The Return of Captain Gordon Grapeshot in ‘The Quest for the Golden Porcupine!’
Chapter Five of Twenty-Seven ONLY in ‘ Fizz & Froth Quarterly ’ edited by Edith Whipple…
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Aug 4, 20236 min read
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The Popular Songs of Mimsy Sparkles — The Singing Infant
Look at that! The Size of me Hat! Me Bonnet’s Bigger Than Me!’ ‘Singing on Me Swing While the Baker’s Caught on Fire…’ ‘Little Feet About...
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Aug 1, 20231 min read
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Bill Poster, Five Points, New York 1848.
Exclusive ORIGINAL Bill Poster From one of COLSON T. TURNPENNY'S Very FIRST Exhibitions!
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Jul 31, 20231 min read
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Albert DuNeef's Sad Lament 'The Wanderer'
Mary Stoic, ‘Songs from the Old Country’ {NY: Humble Pie, 1855}, p101 Lost in the cave of my sorrow. The sad echoes, the sadness of my...
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Jul 28, 20231 min read
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13 of the Late 19th Century’s Most Dastardly Criminals!
Reginald Polk — ‘The Fiendish Nudger’ — Murder by Nudging Billy Smalls — ‘The Genius Pipsqueak’ — Toyshop Heists (Sentenced to Seven...
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Jul 28, 20231 min read
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‘Pull Ye Lassie’s Petticoat Doon’ by Billy McFisk
Mary Stoic, ‘Songs from the Old Country’ {NY: Humble Pie, 1855}, p37 There’s snow that’s fallen on the glen The highland frost’s too much...
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Jul 27, 20231 min read
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Bill Poster, Five Points, New York 1849.
COLSON T. TURNPENNY! The Master of Untold Oddities! (& associate Horace Leffett) Presents an Exhibition of FREAKISH WONDERMENTS as yet...
MANDRAKE PAN
Jul 26, 20231 min read
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‘My Handsome Dick’
By H.R. Pirie. From: ‘Odes to My Little Soldier’ {London: Grenville and Tupes, 1877}, p 16.
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Jul 25, 20231 min read
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DEMONIC MOUSTACHE AT LARGE IN PUTNEY
A diabolical manifestation emerged in the small hours of yesterday morning and surprised a number of local residents!
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Mar 1, 20234 min read
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DIRECTIONAL STEAM BOOTS.
INVENTED BY WILFRED WOOLFITT, THESE CANISTERS OF COMPRESSED STEAM LETS THE WEARER TAKE TO THE SKIES! FEATURED HEAVILY IN THE CASE OF THE FIENDISH NUDGER!
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