Author: MANNEKEN-PIS - MARCO MARCOVICI,
Title: Souvenir de Manneken-Pis. 10 Cartes Postales Aquarelle. [title on front cover].
Description: Bruxelles/Brussels, M. Marcovici, s.d. [circa], 1930. Tog. 13 (instead of 10 as stated on front cover) naughty coloured picture postcards of Manneken Pis, the famous peeing boy in Brussels centre, each 14x9,5cm., with captions in french and english and occasionally in flemish, unused. Tog. in their original blue coloured paper envelope, title printed in red on front side, with a small coloured vignette in lower right corner, publ. advertism. printed in red on lower outer side. Cards after original watercolours by Marco [Marcovici], all but one with his printed surname in corner of illustrated area, all but one of the statue in the nude, unmarked card in military costume. Ambiguous bi/tri-lingual, french-english. some in flemish only, comments to the statue of Manneken-pis by spectators as soldiers, married couples, nuns & aeging spinsters (of which one a U.S. citizen, the word U.S.A. printed on her handbag) to the statue of Manneken-pis (:) dirty jokes, sex and peeing and the size of his genitals. Manneken-Piss, the statue of a little peeing boy near Brussels Centre on top of a fountain. His history is shrouded in mist. It is said that the statue is nothing more than a decoration on top of a fountain, where people in the Middle Ages came to get fresh water. Already in the 15th century a fountain called Manneken-Pis existed in the Stoofstraat/Rue de l'étuve. The official origin can be traced back to the 13th of August 1619 when the city ordered the sculptor Jerome Duquesnoy to make a new bronze statue of Manneken-pis to replace an old and withered one. Nowadays it is one of the biggest attractions of Brussels. Little knwon however is that Manneken-pis has a still expanding wardrobe of over 600 costumes, which are all preserved in the City Museum at Brussels' central marketplace. The statue is often dressed in one of his costumes, amongst which one notices an Elvis Presley outfit and a Mickey Mouse costume. Very good complete set in the original publ. envelope. Rare.

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