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[Nina Brown]

From the Buffalo Daily Courier
January 11,1859.

[SirRobertAnderson]

Nice find !

We're knee deep in Tumbelty and I like it like it yes I do.

[Nemo]

Excellent Nina - what is that a picture of? - it's a bit hard to make out

Can I ask - are you also searching under the variations of the name "Tumblety"?

It did seem to be mis-spelled a lot

[Howard Brown]

Nemo:

Neither Nina..who is sleeping...or I could determine what that is representative of.

I believe that she has been employing the multiple spellings in her searches...good thinking Nemo.

[Nemo]

It looks like a witch waving a flag on a railway track - very strange

[Howard Brown]

Nemo,old pal...thats just the way you remove pimples forever after using Doc Tumblety's Pimple Banisher@ ! You go and stand in front of an oncoming train waving a broom.... Don't you know anything :kiss:?

[Tim Riordan]

The picture represents a man in a garden, carrying a book and pointing to a plant. It was meant to show Tumblety's herbal medicine. The earliest that I have seen this woodcout in in Toronto in 1856. Attached is a better quality image from the Canadain Almanac for 1859.

Best,

Tim

[Nemo]

Thanks a lot Tim - I see it now

amazing what the eye "sees" in a vague shape

[Howard Brown]

Damn ! I still like my version of what the caricature was more better than that Riordan guys' was:banghead: