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Auction B46 24-25 Aug 2022
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The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes - Part Three
A Skit Note sold by Luffman, at 377 Strand, London, for Self, Lapstone, Staytape, Tossup & Winem, 2 Pence, 6 February 1806, promising to pay 'Coll Pattypan & Sam Roarer Esq or Bearer, on the erection of a Statue of the late Heaven-born Minister composed of Pure Puff Paste, or Papier-machee, or Calf's-head jelly, in Guildhall', signed by Tim Tartlet and Sam Noisymouth, with a vignette showing what appears to be a gibbet, labelled 'We restore liberty, and rank among the best correctives for baseness', mounting traces, good fine and a very scarce original printing for this design £100-£150
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This note is probably ironic, as it suggests that the axe and gibbet are restorers of liberty. The names and suggestions of statues made of unsuitable materials are all highly Cruikshankian.
A Skit Note sold by Luffman, at 377 Strand, London, for Self, Lapstone, Staytape, Tossup & Winem, 2 Pence, 6 February 1806, promising to pay 'Coll Pattypan & Sam Roarer Esq or Bearer, on the erection of a Statue of the late Heaven-born Minister composed of Pure Puff Paste, or Papier-machee, or Calf's-head jelly, in Guildhall', signed by Tim Tartlet and Sam Noisymouth, with a vignette showing what appears to be a gibbet, labelled 'We restore liberty, and rank among the best correctives for baseness', mounting traces, good fine and a very scarce original printing for this design £100-£150
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This note is probably ironic, as it suggests that the axe and gibbet are restorers of liberty. The names and suggestions of statues made of unsuitable materials are all highly Cruikshankian.