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Warming up - The detail on the moving characters is astonishing.<br />
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 - All the characters featured in real circuses of the era.<br />
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Roll Up, Roll Up...for the greatest (miniature) show on earth...<br />
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The Brexit negotiations at Westminster may have been likened to a 'Three ringed circus' of late - but an incredible scale model of the real thing has emerged at a London auction house...<br />
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The unique model was hand built by former circus worker David Hardie after he returned to Britain from Australia in the 1950's. <br />
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'Silvers Model Circus' depicts, in perfect detail, every aspect of a huge travelling circus, and is brought to life by tiny, beautifully crafted, moving figures, from the artistes high in the Big Top to the cooks preparing a meal for the tent hands and the children playing outside their caravans.<br />
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The 27ft automata is expected to sell for over £20,000 at Roseberry's auctioneers in Tooting later on this week.