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FRED RUSSELL'S 'COSTER JOE' VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY ;
Fred Russell OBE b 29 September 1862 – d. 14 October 1957) was an English ventriloquist ;
Known as "The Father of Modern Ventriloquism", he is usually credited as being the first to use a knee-sitting figure ;
He performed until 1952 billed as 'the oldest ventriloquist in the world' ;
Coster Joe is a child-size 'cheeky boy dummy' figure first presented in 1896 at the Palace in London, UK ;
Credit: Mander and Mitchenson / University of Bristol / Performing Arts Images
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