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Execution & punishment GUILLOTINE. 1/48th scale kit

Execution & punishment GUILLOTINE. 1/48th scale kit

1/48th kit guillotine, quarter scale

Flat packed, in kit form and ready for construction in colours of your own choosing.

This is an advanced kit for an experienced dolls house maker.

Size: 5.5 cms length x 2.5 cms depth x 6cms high. You can shorten the legs to make it smaller if you wish.

The blade does not move up and down.

Proposed by Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the guillotine was meant to be a humane form of capital punishment because it reduced suffering. During the Revolution, its image was popularized in jewelry and toys. But the justice that the guillotine once represented was marred by the Reign of Terror.

The guillotine, which came to symbolize the French Revolution, was first used in 1792. Its scaffold was the final stage for Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, aristocrats, foreigners, revolutionaries, counterrevolutionaries, bourgeoisie, and peasants alike. Was it an instrument of democratic justice, or a weapon of tyrannical terror?


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