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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 78 | THE ORANGE-TREE TRICK spring socket for holding the candle firmly, and an arrangement whereby the candle always occupied an upright position, however the candlestick might be held. In 1768 (patent No. 899) he patented his nocturnal remembrancer, a series of tablets with notches, to serve as guides for writing in the dark. His snuffers (No. III9) patented 1776, continued to be made in Birmingham The Daily Poft. `KIDAY, January 21, 1726. S's and POWEL's Theatre, in in James-freet, mear the Hay-Marlet, be ving Entertainments, viz. 1726 FIRST his furprizing Dex- Hand, far exceeding all thatever Perform in this Kingdera. ad The fancus Poftare-Mafter. de The Mafics) Closk, that Play variety of Tunts, on the Orgia, Fluse, and Sine- Flageleig with Hirds, felf. Whilling and from Life the it Bath: And The 4th. wiole Powyl's Play of The Prineefs Elisabeth, er Rife of bugge Punch: With the Comical Humonrs of Enquire Punch, and his Foot- man Gudgeon. Perfoim'd by the Richeft Bnd Figures that ever was fees in England. Concluding with an Piece of Ma- chinery, after the Italian Manner, repreferring the Eplendid Palace of Diana breaking into Domble and Triple Prefpeds, with all the Changes of Srents and Decorations belonging to the Play. N. B. The poors will be open'devery Day at Five a Clock. And in Regird that Gentlemen and La- dies thall not be difappointed, we beghi exalty as Six, and none to bead- mitred afuer. Prices: S. . S. snd6d A clipping from the Taily Post, London showing that Fawkes combined forces with Powel, the famous Bartholomew Fair puppet man. From the Harry Houdini Collection. until the last forty years or so, when snuffers began to go out of use. In I774 he presented to the Society of Arts a model of a plough for mending roads. Pinchbeck's name first appears in the London directory in 1778, when it replaced that of Richard Pinchbeck, toyman, of whom nothing is recorded. "Christopher Pinchbeck, Jr., was held in considerable esteem by George III., and he figures in Wilkes' London [61] |