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Puppets

This subseries consists of a variety of puppets (string puppets, jumping jacks, rod puppets, glove puppets, etc.) representing many different countries and puppet-making techniques and traditions. Also contains a miniature Punch and Judy show toy and a French Cartelli puppet theater including frame, scenery, curtrain, proscenium, and some costumes.

Harlequin

An eighteenth-century puppet of Harlequin, a character from the Commedia dell'Arte. String puppet of the simpler kind, (see also P1). From a Paris puppet theatre of 1760.

Brighella

An eighteenth-century puppet of Brighella, a character from the Commedia dell'Arte. Of the simpler kind of string puppet, held from above by a vertical iron rod (or thick wire) hooked to an eyelet on top of the head; a rod or string to the right hand (in this case, both hands). From a Paris puppet theatre of 1760.

Two Saracen knights

Two Saracen knights, characters from the marionette theatre of southern France, (Charlemagne legend). Simple string puppet.

Jean Petit

Two sales (of a lot and a share of La Compagnie de la Colonie), a copy of the 1702 concession of Mille-Iles to J. Petit & Gaspard Piot de Longloiserie and a sale to of a house and lot on Rue Saint Anne by Lucien Boutteville to Jean Petit.

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