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Patent No 16346 12 November 1888
An Improved Means for Displaying Trousers
Augustus Byron 48 London Street Rose Hill
Derby Merchant Tailor do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The invention consists of a metal block
constructed to 昀椀t inside any sized trousers
bottom, moulded to the shape of a trousers
bottom that would be considered by the tailoring
trade as perfection in shape.
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While Belfast was on the cusp of
becoming a city and the book stacks
of the Central Library being 昀椀lled,
dark and sinister events were taking
place in Whitechapel, London.
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