Claude Duval Gentleman Highwayman England Du Vall 1930s Trade Ad Card

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Claude Duval Gentleman Highwayman England Du Vall 1930s Trade Ad Card
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2 5/8 '' x 1 3/8 ''  or  6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm.
ORIGINAL 1930s TRADE  ADVERTISING CARD
CLAUDE DUVAL
Claude Du Vall (1643 - 21 January 1670) was a French-born, gentleman highwayman in
post-Restoration Britain.
Du Val became a successful highwayman who robbed the passing stagecoaches in the roads to London,
especially Holloway between Highgate and Islington, and that unlike most other highwaymen, he
distinguished himself with rather gentlemanly behaviour and fashionable clothes.
He reputedly never used violence. One of his victims was Squire Roper, Master of the Royal
Buckhounds, whom he relieved of 50 guineas and tied to a tree.
There are many tales about Du Val. One particularly famous one - placed in more than one location and
later published by William Pope - claims that he took only a part of his potential loot from a gentleman
when his wife agreed to dance the "courante" with him in the wayside, a scene immortalised by William
Powell Frith in his 1860 painting Claude Du Val..
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THE CARD DIMENTIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
2 5/8 '' x 1 3/8 ''  or  6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm.
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