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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 84 | THE ORANGE-TREE TRICK by Pinchbeck the elder, for Fawkes, may have been bequeathed by the latter to his son, but, in 1732, Pinch- beck the elder and Fawkes the younger were in a booth together, and Pinchbeck was advertised as doing "the dexterity of hand" performances. After Christopher As FAWKES, Great Theatrical Booth, In Weft Smithfield, faceing the White Hart Alt- konfe near Cow-lane End, D URING the fhort Time of Bartholomew- Fair, which liegins out Monday next, the 23d Triftant, and ends the Thorfday following, the Publick will be di- verted with the fediniving Entertainments, which have gain'd fuch great Applanfe, viz. Firit, Fawkes's ducomparable Dexteriry of Hand, who perforins feveral forpriling Tricks entirely new and very curions. Secondiy, The amazing Mulical Clock, witli two curious Miving Pictures. Thirdiy, The famous yourg Pofore-Mafter, who vauls the flack Rope to the Admiration of all that have fech him, and far exceeds any riung of the Kind in Enrope: Fourthly, The Temiple of Aris, wbich is the fineft Piece of Workmanibip in the World, the Machmery confifting of valt Variery of Moving Figtires, and many other inimi- table Curioliries. Fiftlily, That fine Piece of Machinery, the Artificial View of the World, wherelo are Hiww Variery of duffercar Profpecis; parricniarly the chree following, viz. . of Windfor Caltle, wich a View of the River of Tliames, 2. The City of Grand Cairo da Egypt. 3. A Proficet of the Town, Fort and Bay of Gibraltar, N. B. To begia every Day at Ten in the Moruing and End at Ten at Niglio Aus 16 9736 Clipping from the London Post, August 16th, 1736, when young Fawkes was playing alone. From the Harry Houdini Collection. Pinchbeck, Sr., died, young Fawkes started out on his own account. In I746, according to an advertisement in my collection, a Fawkes and a Pinchbeck were together again, so the son of Pinchbeck must have joined the younger Fawkes for exhibition purposes. The accom- panying clippings from contemporary publications trace the history of young Fawkes, and prove that the tree [67] |