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LIB/ME/AE/33
LIB/ME/AE/33
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LIB/ME/AE/33
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Item
Title
Advertising handbill. Jacko the Wonder! A famous black tan dog. (Another copy)
1866
Extent and medium
1 broadsheet
Scope and content
Advertising handbill (another copy): 'Jacko the Wonder! a famous Black Tan Dog. 13lb wight, the property of Mr. Jemmy Shaw, London, the winner of above 200 Interesting Events, ...' with a list of the number of rats he has killed from 1861 to 1866. The advertisement declares that the dog's latest appearance was at the Royal Crystal Palace, 7th and 9th July 1866 and that it can be seen 'At all times, at the bar of Mr. Jemmy Shaw's, Wrekin Tavern, Broad Court, Bow Street, London.
'Jimmy Shaw, the proprietor of one of the largest sporting public-houses in London, who is celebrated for the rat-matches which come off weekly at his establishment ...' is discussed in Henry Mayhew's 'London labour and the London poor', London: Griffin, Bohn and Company, 1861, Vol. III, p. 9.