Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street London 1920s Trade Ad Card

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Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street London 1920s Trade Ad Card
NOTE:
THESE ARE NOT POSTCARDS
THEY ARE TRADE/ADVERTISING CARDS.
THEY ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN A STANDARD POSTCARD
AND
THERE IS ADVERTISING TEXT ON THE BACK!
THE CARD DIMENSIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
2 5/8 '' x 1 3/8 ''  or  6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm.
ORIGINAL 1920s TRADE - ADVERTISING CARD
SWEENEY TODD THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET LONDON
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the Victorian penny
dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846-47).
In the original version of the tale, Todd is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a lever as
they sit in his barber chair. His victims fall backward down a revolving trap door into the basement
of his shop, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. In case they are alive, Todd goes
to the basement and "polishes them off" (slitting their throats with his straight razor). In some
adaptations, the murdering process is reversed, with Todd slitting his customers' throats before
dispatching them into the basement through the revolving trap door. After Todd has robbed his
dead victims of their goods, Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime (in some later versions, his friend
and/or lover), assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling
them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop. Todd's barber shop is situated at 152 Fleet
Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop in nearby
Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. In most versions of the story, he and Mrs. Lovett
hire an unwitting orphan boy, Tobias Ragg, to serve the pies to customers.
NOTE:
THE REVERSE SIDE HAS TEXT ABOUT THE CHARACTER ON THE FRONT SIDE
THE CARD DIMENSIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
2 5/8 '' x 1 3/8 ''  or  6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm.
NOTE:
THE IMAGES ABOVE IS LARGER THAN THE CARD
TO SHOW THE DETAIL.
SEE IMAGES ABOVE WITH THE RULER AS A SCALE!
THIS CARD IS NOT A MODERN REPRODUCTION - IT IS AN ORIGINAL
IT WAS PRINTED IN THE 1920s
IT IS NOT PERFECT
THERE MAY BE:
PAPER LOSS - SMUDGING - ROUNDED CORNERS
SEE IMAGES ABOVE!
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