A Traveling Dime Museum of Dr. Gulkoff

May 20, 2016 06:10 AM
May 20, 2016 02:21 PM
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A Traveling Dime Museum of Dr. Gulkoff (a distributor of therapeutic tonics and a printer of pleasing paraphernalia) welcomes visitors and voyeurs since MMXVI.

This compact cabinet of curiosities guarantees world greatest wonders, for but a single dime!*

>A short video:

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Kids, veterans, elderly and those expressly enthusiastic get a free pass.

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Owing to it's prodigious name, most of the specimen are knock-offs and forgeries of real or cryptozoological beings, figures of literary fiction and flights of fancy.

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Don't forget to take a sip of Dr Gulkoff's Patented Restorative Tonic!

Alleviates Ailments, Motorizes Members, Purifies Scents

80 Proof, Secret Gyptian Receipt

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Quality white phosphorous matches, also available at the Pillowface Press traveling print and medicine show!

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I made a traveling miniature letterpress printshop in a box some time ago (inspired by the tradition of tramp printers) but kept thinking it needed a companion piece. Medicine shows and dime museums seem like a good match.

The specimen are mostly inspired by mythology and literature, like a shrunken piece of the shagreen skin, or a Lilliput skull.

The tonic is currently just vodka infused with some anise seeds and sugar (experiments with more complicated concoctions weren't particularly successful).

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