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“General” Tom Thumb’s Personal Settee

July 11, 2009

Speaking of upholstery … Joan Bogart recently shared with me a settee in her possession that originally belonged to Tom Thumb.  Discovered at the age of 5 by distant relative P.T. Barnum, Charles Sherwood Stratton was a dwarf who became one of Barnum’s most famous and lucrative human curiosities.   Barnum immediately concocted a [...]

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