Slide set: Tuttlebury's latch key (comic: Bamforth & Co., 14 slides, 1897)

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Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1

A latch key is a most convenient article when it happens to be on the same side of the latch as you are

Slide 2

The Tuttlebury mansion was wrapped several inches thick in sleep as Tuttlebury strolled up the garden walk

Slide 3

Tuttlebury sat down on the step to think

Slide 4

He found it with his shin, just at the point where nature has put the least padding

Slide 5

He got his boot toe between the bars of the area grate

Slide 6

'Blowed if they haven't locked the back gate too'

Slide 7

The dog gave vent to one suppressed growl, and the left leg of Tuttlebury's trousers

Slide 8

Springing over the gate into the arms of a policeman

Slide 9

Beg pardon, sir, you've got to the wrong gate

Slide 10

no image available

Slide 11

Leaving Tuttlebury clinging to the fall-pipe

Slide 12

Tuttlebury sat on the sill to take off his boots

Slide 13

Mrs Tuttlebury heard him, and came to let him out

Slide 14

'We've been sleeping with the front door unlatched'

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Bamforth & Co., England

Other related organisation

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1897-1914 (item ref. 1013)

Main type of image

drawing / painting / print

Main usage of set

comic

Date of first manufacture

1897

Reading or song

W. Carter Platts, ‘Tuttlebury's latch key’ in The Tuttlebury tales (1896)

People involved in slide production

WEEKS, Frank F. (1845-1914) – creator of source image(s), all 14 slides

Notes

Weeks is identified as the artist because his 'FFW' or 'FTW' monogram appears on the title slide, in the lower panel of the door.

Collections

13 slides known to exist in private collection

Lucerna ID 3002241

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 7 August 2023

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Slide set: Tuttlebury's latch key (comic: Bamforth & Co., 14 slides, 1897)