Jemmy the Rockman Three Dimensional Figure
Jemmy the Rockman Three Dimensional Figure, bronze gilt, circa 1840, standing figure of a man in old fashioned dress holding a walking stick and waring a military hat. 218 x 114, contained in later frame with gilt slip. The gilding burnished in some places, good very fine. £Sold
James Guidney, aka Jemmy the Rockman, was a well-known character on the streets of Birmingham in the latter years of the Georgian and into the Victorian era, with his red military jacket and long white beard. Jemmy was a true English eccentric. He eventually settled at Birmingham where he sold a form of rock candy on the streets, which he called his "Composition", crying out as he walked with his tin o sweets, "Composition. Good for cough or cold. Cough or cold."
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