An altercation between a plasterer and an idler leads to them both being covered in plaster and arrested by the police. Coloured magic lantern slides.

Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
Reference:
754977i
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About this work

Description

A plasterer is plastering a wall, and an idler is sitting on the plank of the plasterer's platform. The plasterer tips the idler off the plank into a cistern of wet plaster. The idler holds the plasterer by the leg and pulls him into the cistern too. A policeman arrives from behind the wall and marches both of them off

Publication/Creation

London (52 Queen Vic[toria] St., London E.C.) : H.L. Toms, [between 1890 and 1899?]

Physical description

6 photographs : transparencies, coloured ; each 8.2 x 9 cm

Contributors

Lettering

A slap, a dab and a lock up. Comic slides (Copyright).

Contents

1. You ain't agoin' to git orf that plank ain't yer? 2. Orf yer goes! 3. O-ow! leggo me leg! 4. There! I knew suffin ud 'appen!! 5. And when the bobby took a hand -- 6. Something did happen

Reference

Wellcome Collection 754977i

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Where to find it

  • nos. 1-6

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    Closed stores

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