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<p>[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8180613, member: 20201"]<font size="6"><b>1790's Pidcocks Exhibition</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Elephant & Two Headed Cow </b></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>Conder Token - Farthing</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>[ATTACH=full]1430143[/ATTACH] </b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b>[ATTACH=full]1430144[/ATTACH] </b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Pidcock's menagerie was at Exeter Exchange on the Strand in London.</p><p>Gilbert Pidcock had worked in travelling shows since he was a young man, and in 1795 took sole ownership of the London-based menagerie which bore his name that was situated in the Strand in a building called the Exeter Change. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430145[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the grand sights of the metropolis, people flocked to see the exotic animals and birds on show. The animals were kept in small cages which provided an extremely cruel life for his indoor zoo.</p><p>He exhibited exotic animals since 1793, including a kangaroo, elephant, rhinoceros and cockatoos. The token here showing an elephant and a two-headed cow. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430147[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The two-headed heifer was a live exhibit and the very remarkable creature had two heads, four horns, four ears, four nostrils, through each of which it breathed.</p><p>It had two hearts. One of the heads, together with the horns, represented that of a bull, and the other of a cow. The height of the animal was thirteen hands, and each horn measured twenty-five inches long.</p><p><br /></p><p>On Pidcock’s death in about 1810, the menagerie passed to Stephani Polito and on his death in 1814, one of his employees, Edward Cross, took over the menagerie.</p><p><br /></p><p>An elephant, though not the one shown on this farthing, was named Chunee and was the star attraction of the menagerie. After arriving in England in 1809, he performed on stage, delighting audiences “for forty successive nights at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden” and was often paraded in the street outside the menagerie. But he was not a happy elephant and on February 26th 1826, he went out of control and killed one of his keepers in a fit of bad temper and was subsequently put down for safety reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1430146[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>After the death of Chunee, the popularity of the menagerie rapidly declined. Cross started a new menagerie at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and around 1829 the Exeter ‘Change was demolished.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8180613, member: 20201"][SIZE=6][B]1790's Pidcocks Exhibition[/B] [B]Elephant & Two Headed Cow [/B] [B]Conder Token - Farthing[/B] [B][/B] [B][ATTACH=full]1430143[/ATTACH] [/B] [B][/B] [B][ATTACH=full]1430144[/ATTACH] [/B][/SIZE] Pidcock's menagerie was at Exeter Exchange on the Strand in London. Gilbert Pidcock had worked in travelling shows since he was a young man, and in 1795 took sole ownership of the London-based menagerie which bore his name that was situated in the Strand in a building called the Exeter Change. [ATTACH=full]1430145[/ATTACH] One of the grand sights of the metropolis, people flocked to see the exotic animals and birds on show. The animals were kept in small cages which provided an extremely cruel life for his indoor zoo. He exhibited exotic animals since 1793, including a kangaroo, elephant, rhinoceros and cockatoos. The token here showing an elephant and a two-headed cow. [ATTACH=full]1430147[/ATTACH] The two-headed heifer was a live exhibit and the very remarkable creature had two heads, four horns, four ears, four nostrils, through each of which it breathed. It had two hearts. One of the heads, together with the horns, represented that of a bull, and the other of a cow. The height of the animal was thirteen hands, and each horn measured twenty-five inches long. On Pidcock’s death in about 1810, the menagerie passed to Stephani Polito and on his death in 1814, one of his employees, Edward Cross, took over the menagerie. An elephant, though not the one shown on this farthing, was named Chunee and was the star attraction of the menagerie. After arriving in England in 1809, he performed on stage, delighting audiences “for forty successive nights at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden” and was often paraded in the street outside the menagerie. But he was not a happy elephant and on February 26th 1826, he went out of control and killed one of his keepers in a fit of bad temper and was subsequently put down for safety reasons. [ATTACH=full]1430146[/ATTACH] After the death of Chunee, the popularity of the menagerie rapidly declined. Cross started a new menagerie at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, and around 1829 the Exeter ‘Change was demolished.[/QUOTE]
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