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The ‘Brummagem’ Mountebank

1830s (BM dates it 1835)

Satirical cartoon of a bearded bear chained to a pole topped with a cap of Liberty, led by a man in a long coat, with a box labelled ‘Brass buttons without shanks for the new currency’. — Unknown; published by W. Hodgetts, Birmingham, 1830s (BM dates it 1835). British Museum (1868,0808.9456), via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

A Birmingham cartoon mocking Muntz as a chained bear led by Thomas Attwood, with a jibe at Attwood’s paper-money ideas in the box of ‘brass buttons… for the new currency’. British Museum.

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