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Changeable Gentlemen

London Published by R Ackermann Jan 1 1819 [hand coloured]

original wooden box measures 75mm x 106mm [not all shown in the photos]
A particularly rare ‘novel assemblage of moveable human features calculated to afford an inexhaustible source of rational amusement’. ‘Thus upwards of 5000 different portraits may be formed’

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