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Slide set: 'Vat you please' (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 6 slides, in/before 1873)

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Catalogue entries (4)

unknown

List of popular lantern photographs (Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, n.d.), 4

“Six Original Illustrations.”

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), F [2]

“A humorous story of two Frenchmen, one of whom gets warmed inside, and the other outside, through taking the waiter at his word”

c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 191

“Six Original Illustrations.”

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 367

Other reference

1888

Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 313

“Describing the way one Frenchman gets a dinner, and another a hiding, by saying 'Vat you please.'”

Lucerna ID 3003728

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 9 March 2024

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Slide set: 'Vat you please' (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 6 slides, in/before 1873)