"Colosso" : age: 19 years, weight: 44 st., height: 6ft, 2 1/2 ins.

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[between 1910 and 1919?]
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"Colosso" : age: 19 years, weight: 44 st., height: 6ft, 2 1/2 ins. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Postcard showing Colosso, a 44 stone 19 year old young man wearing a kilt and sporran with a woollen sash over his shoulder sitting on a carved wooden chair. This postcard would probably have been sold as a souvenir at places where he was exhibited as part of a freak show.

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

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1 broadside : illustrations, portrait ; 14 cm

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    EPH499

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    EPH499:1

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