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Title Tho’ in butter
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A man stands behind a counter wearing an apron, with his hands in his pockets. On the other side of the conter another man holds upa set of balances and says "False, Sir."
Notes Text: Tho’ in butter cheese, and such as these / You deal, your CONDUCT’s not the CHEESE / They say the buyer never fail / To find ‘gainst him you turn the scale. / By such tricks you rob the poor, / Untill the jury at your door, / Finds you out and prove too late, / We cannot trust a man of WEIGHT. / Measures not men’s a motto fine, / Then an honest! Thief shall ne’er be mine.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Clerks -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Theft -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance Helfand, William H..
Identifier Comic Valentines, 16.26