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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
11-Dec-2017
Lot No.
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Description:
Burman, William J. Dominick Sonsee, the smallest man in the world, Melbourne, circa 1880. Albumen print photograph carte-de-visite, 101 x 65 mm, with imprint of Burman Photo, 209 Bourke St. East & St. George's Hall. Sonsee was born in Geelong in 1850. He managed to make a living as a travelling sideshow performer in the 1870s and early 1880s but died at the young age of 33 in Temora, New South Wales.
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Price:
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Category:
Unclassified