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[Chris Scott]

7 ALDGATE High Street J WATTAMS HOTEL Shop RP
Published Vintage Postcard
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Unused
14 x 9cm approx.

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[Chris Scott]

make of this what you will...

WEEKLY WORLD NEWS. JACK THE RIPPER, OPRAH, BIGFOOT
WEEKLY WORLD NEWS June 20, 1989. Woman was married to JACK THE RIPPER and reveals his identity. (Yet another "solution." Collect them all ...) Boy eats angel food cake and flies. Oprah Winfrey's spirit guide sends her the perfect man, baby glows in the dark, man eaten by ants, Bigfoot mummy discovered in Egypt .... the usual WWN hijinks. Quite good condition for a newsprint publication. Just a little darkened, but not at all brittle.

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[Stewart P Evans]

Age

Negative 12 years. Unfortunately, I missed the 60's.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott

But now I'd rather be your age than mine, I think. But at least I was 18 in 1967 and got to photograph 29 Hanbury Street and George Yard Building.

[Tom_Wescott]

I read it in 1961. How old were you then Tom?

Negative 12 years. Unfortunately, I missed the 60's.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[George Hutchinson]

Hi, Observer. The sale of Punch I bought was not just the latter part of 1888, it went into 1889 as well. I won it years ago so cannot remember now. I do recall I was charged a fortune for postage - far, far more than it cost them and they didn't answer any of my e-mails, so they got one of only three neutral feedbacks I've ever given out.

I've got that 50 Greatest Wotsits book somewhere as well (the old one, not the Wilson). Now I see Stewart's scan above, the Beaumont piece was reissued in the late 90s (I think) as a small stand-alone booklet repro, because I definitely have one of them too.

PHILIP

[Stewart P Evans]

The Fifty Most Amazing Crimes of the Last 100 Years

Colin Wilson? Man, I was way off base there. No wonder Admin doesn't want me.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott

As stated the book was published in 1936. It was Colin Wilson's introduction to the case, and mine, although he read it considerably earlier than I did. We discussed it when a spent a day with him at his delightful home many years ago. I read it in 1961. How old were you then Tom?

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Tom,

I think your thinking of Colin Wilson. The book was 'The Fifty most amazing crimes of the past 100 years' I thought it was first published in 1936.

Rob

Colin Wilson? Man, I was way off base there. No wonder Admin doesn't want me.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Rob Clack]

Hi Tom,

I think your thinking of Colin Wilson. The book was 'The Fifty most amazing crimes of the past 100 years' I thought it was first published in 1936.

Rob

[Tom_Wescott]

Observer,

If I'm not mistaken, the book you're describing was Stewart Evans' introduction to Ripperology. The question mark that appeared where an illustration of the killer should have been intrigued him. Or am I thinking of Donald Rumbelow?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Observer]

PS

I don't know whether the following publication can be classed as a Ripper book, probably not, but I have a copy of 100 great murders, or is it 50, (I'll have to look it out) dated 1923. The Ripper features as one of the 50 great murders.

Observer

[Observer]

Hi Robert

Thanks all the same but I already have a bound copy of Punch. And it cost me more than £15 postage for the big, heavy bugger to get it back to Canada by boat, train, and dog sled!

No problems my friend. How many copies are out there!

This to Philip, did the copy you buy describe that it covered the period of the Ripper murders? If I remember rightly my friend who put his on ebay didn't describe his to it's full potential, he merely stating that it was a bound copy of Punch June-Dec 1888.

All the best Observer

[George Hutchinson]

Rob - thankfully, given the astronomical prices of some of the books, I've never found I had duplicates by accident. There are a few - like yours - where I've deliberately bought more than one copy.

However, there are some other books, such as by Harry Price or the hugely prolific Elliott O'Donnell, where I have bought a second copy by mistake.

I wonder what Stewart Evans would have to say about his own experiences?

PHILIP

[Mike Covell]

I have two copies of "Ripper Suspect, The Secret Lives of MJ Druitt" due to a mix up when ordering, I only paid for one, and was informed I could keep it!


I have numerous books were I have the first edition, and every edition afterwards.

[RJM]

Observer,

Thanks all the same but I already have a bound copy of Punch. And it cost me more than £15 postage for the big, heavy bugger to get it back to Canada by boat, train, and dog sled!

By the way, the numbered copy is #17. It was meant for a Ripper friend who, unfortunately, purchased a much higher number from someone else.

Hey, Phil, have you ever gone through your Ripper books only to find you've purchased some books (same edition even) more than once.
I'm either getting old, or there's too many Ripper books out there.

Cheers,

Robert

[George Hutchinson]

Hi Observer.

I DID get my 1888-9 bound Ripper Punch on eBay for EXACTLY £15, as a matter of fact!

PHILIP