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PG-P.751.058
14 Nov 1751:23 (1196)
By permission of his Honour the Governor, to be seen, at the
house of John Baker, in Kensington, near Philadelphia, an
exact model or representation of Christ-Church steeple in
Bristol, in Great-Britain, with eight bells, and eight
ringers. Also to be seen, an image, in the likeness of a
woman, erected by mechanic art, five feet high, with a
hammer in her hand, well dressed in woman's apparel, named
Servantine, who draws two curtains, walks across the room,
and with her hammer fires off a ship's gun; then turns
about, walks back, and sets the ringers a ringing in the
true round ringing and changes; afterwards walks along,
turns about, and remains in her first station: Which
curiosities, with several others, not mentioned, will be
shewn all working-days (Fridays excepted) between the hours
of nine in the morning, and six in the evening, to any
company, not less than five at one time, at one shilling
each person.
These mechanical works are not made or exposed to view
with any pride or vanity, or self-interest; and I do
declare, that if this design shall prove profitable, the
money arising therefrom shall be applied to publick use,
especially for the poor. What is here erected, is not of
myself, nor can I, or all the world, do any thing of
themselves, as it appears to me, no not so much as to make a
ten-penny nail, or a small chip, or the minutest things that
tongue can mention. If the greatest artist in the world,
did but look on a spider and his works, he would there see
see his master-piece, and the world's master-piece. [signed]
John Baker.
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