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A pair of tougher to locate Connecticut store cards both are ex: Dr. George Fuld collection 1974.
1835 Davenport, New Haven, HT-101 / Low-305 R-3.
1835 Fobes & Barlow, New Haven, HT-102 / Low-291 R-2.
1835 Davenport, New Haven, HT-101 / Low-305 R-3.
1835 Fobes & Barlow, New Haven, HT-102 / Low-291 R-2.
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Gilbert Pidco_ck brought Chunee the largest male elephant nearly 5 tons in weight and 11 feet in height to England for display in his menagerie. The public paid to see him and his specialty was to hold a sixpence in his trunk before returning it to visitors. Sadly he was neglected and one of his tusks was rotten which made him very bad-tempered and he broke loose from his leash killing one of his keepers. He was quickly captured but it was decided that Chunee had become too dangerous to be on public show and a date was set for him to be put down. His keeper tried to give the elephant a dose of poison but he refused to take it becoming enraged and ramming the bars of his cage. Attempts were then made to shoot him as the local Yeomanry squad arrived and fired a total of 152 musket balls into the poor elephant but Chunee would still not lie down. Finally one of his keepers was obliged to finish him off with a harpoon. The bungled execution was widely publicized and hundreds of people turned out to see Chunee's carcass being dissected by students from the Royal College of Surgeons. His skeleton was preserved at the college where musket balls could be seen embedded in the bones.
Another major attraction was a never before seen living siamese bull cow which was advertised as "Now exhibiting the surprising heifer with two heads. This very remarkable creature has two heads, four horns, four ears, four nostrils through each of which it breathes. This truly wonderful curiosity is the only one of the kind in Europe and what is more astonishing it takes its sustenance with both mouths at the same time." It also the received opinion of John Hunter Professor of Anatomy that it had two hearts.
The Exeter Change menagerie was the only permanent show of its kind in London.
Gilbert Pidco_ck died in 1810 and the Exeter Change was demolished in 1829 and the menagerie of animals was moved to the Surrey Zoological Gardens.
The two-headed beast is called a bull, then a heifer. Was it both of these also? Looks like an udder to me.
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<< <i>Nice token but horrible story about the elephant.
The two-headed beast is called a bull, then a heifer. Was it both of these also? Looks like an udder to me. >>
Although there's a wealth of info available on Chunee the elephant there's not much on the two headed beast.
I did find this though - "One of the Heads, together with the Horns, represents that of a bull, and the other a Cow. The height of the animal is thirteen hands, and each Horn measures twenty-five inches long."
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