Peaked Cap Man

[lynn cates]

visual effect

Hello Gwyneth. Thank you for the kind remarks.

The AF was published every month. I think Rombro had been working on that in his office located near the back of the club.

Your observation brings up a question. What would a bundle of papers, rolled up and tied with string look like? Would they visually differ significantly from a parcel, covered with a paper and tied?

Cheers.
LC

[curious4]

Workers' Friend

Hello Lynn,

You are most welcome. My confusion as per weekly or monthly was occasioned by finding a reference to a very large number of papers having been sold weekly at its peak. Another reference, from a collector, has it coming out monthly and I should have listened to him. I bow to your superior knowledge.

I suppose they were working on the edition published on 5th October, containing details of the murder. Not that they would have known about it then, of course. There was apparently no-one in the printing office at the time the murder was discovered. Don't know enough about newspaper printing to know if some of the 5th October edition had already been printed, but it wouldn't have been available
to the public then.

As to rolled-up newspapers tied up with string (sorry Julie Andrews), I think they would still look like rolled-up newspapers. Tying the bundle round the middle would be ok, but a string from top to bottom would risk tearing the tops and most people like their newspapers pristine. A rolled up newspaper can be used as a defensive weapon, I suppose,
(I was once given a lesson in this by a gentleman aquaintance), but there would be no need for string and it would still look like a rolled up newspaper.

All good wishes,

Gwyneth

[Paddy]

Hat

Would a dock workers hat look like a sailors hat I wonder?

This is how I imagined the hat to look. Looking at old pictures, the Jewish people wore a type of peaked cap that was Germanic looking.......

Pat..................

[lynn cates]

parcel

Hello Gwyneth. Thanks. Wish I HAD some superior knowledge just now. (heh-heh)

It seems to me that a bundle of papers--possibly past editions--sent home for distribution and tied up would look very like a parcel.

Cheers.
LC

[curious4]

Perhaps something like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417281/The-real-Peaky-Blinders-Victorian-gang-terrorised-streets-Birmingham-sewed-razor-blades-caps-headbutt-rivals.html

http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/1900s/f...cling-costume/ ( The cycling caps)

[MrBarnett]

Hi All,

I would have thought that, at 5ft 2 and a half, little Harry Fowler would have found it difficult to headbutt anyone. A few unintended circumcisions or vasectomies perhaps...

I'm showing my age here, but the name Harry Fowler immediately conjures up the phrase ' Follow Flogger.' Any other old farts out there know what I'm talking about?

MrB

[GUT]

G'Day C4

I read a reference ay one point of a suggestion that they flyers to be used for advertising. But of course that may have been wrong. If they were the monthly newspaper, why then take them home?

[curious4]

Flyers

Hello GUT,

Definitely a newspaper. I don't hold with the rolled-up newspapers idea myself, but I suppose those who do would argue that someone listening to the debate might have wanted to take some old editions home to read and perhaps share.

Best wishes,
C4

[curious4]

Newspaper parcel

Hello Gwyneth. Thanks. Wish I HAD some superior knowledge just now. (heh-heh)

It seems to me that a bundle of papers--possibly past editions--sent home for distribution and tied up would look very like a parcel.

Cheers.
LC

Hello Lynn,

No false modesty, please - you know your superior knowledge is one of the mainstays of these boards!

Sorry, I just can't picture a bundle of newspapers looking like a newspaper parcel in any shape or form, try as I might. Mind you, I have no visual memory at all and have been known to walk past my own children in the street.

All good wishes,
C4/Gwyneth

[lynn cates]

experiment

Hello Gwyneth. Thanks.

OK, try this. Take a Sunday newspaper, roll/fold it over. Now tie it round.

How does it look?

Cheers.
LC

[curious4]

Newspaper parcel

Hello Lynn,

One newspaper?

Cheers,

Gwyneth

[lynn cates]

size

Hello Gwyneth. Thanks. Depends upon the size. The AF had about 4 pages, so a good sized Sunday paper should do to approximate several AF's.

Cheers.
LC

[Barnaby]

Except that 'Lipski' was used as a insult by one Jewish man to another. In this neighborhood at that time as shown here -

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=3260

Interesting, kind of like the N word here in the States. That complicates things.

[Barnaby]

Hi again Alicia

Also, after being seen the night of the double event by so many witnesses who described him as wearing the peaked cap, Im sure the ripper would not wear it in public again, especially when he was out hunting for his next victim!
unless of course it was chapman who kept it and was wearing it in that photo. ; )

Thus, the birth of Astrakhan Man.

[GUT]

G'Day Barnaby

But wouldn't the N word also be an insult from a white to a coloured man?

And wouldn't one white man yell to another "There's a N there"?

Or am I misunderstanding?