Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox The UK's only surviving flea circus from Belle Vue in Manchester is up for auction - and could fetch up to £2,000.
The unusual collection includes more than 600 lots, including those that are creepy and macabre - such as a bald, taxidermy piglet mounted in a tortoiseshell, offered at a guide price of £100-£150.
But the biggest star of the auction, which is being run by Sworders, based in Stansted, Essex, is the fairground set of the 'Smallest Show on Earth'.
Professor Len Tomlin became well-known in the mid-1900s for entertaining crowds in Belle Vue, Manchester with his flea circus, in which fleas performed tricks on miniature fairground
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