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The New York lithographic company Ballin & Liebler issued two other sets of advertising cards related to General Tom Thumb and his wife; one illustrated with images of their appearance before royalty on one of their European tours, the other of their wedding in 1863.\n\nThis card is shaped like an artist's palette as a novelty, and is illustrated with four images of 'Major' Edward Newell, one of the performers on Tom Thumb's company's 1882 tour, along with Zoe Meleke and her performing canaries, Whiston the 'humourist and facial artist' and Bingham the ventriloquist. \n\nDubbed the 'Skatorial Champion' because of his dancing on 'parlor skates' or early in-line roller skates, Newell was engaged by P.T. Barnum at his American Museum for several years as General Grant Jnr. before joining Tom Thumb's troupe for the 1874 tour. 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