Laura Adeline Carey and Seymour James Carey, two carte de visites of the Careys as children. (1.) A carte de visite photograph of Laura Adeline Carey (1869-1959) as a baby by Francis Harris Secourable and Barnett. Laura Carey was born in Southend, Essex, the daughter of Arthur Carey, a civil engineer and his wife Elizabeth Skipper. She had siblings called Arthur Reginald Carey and Seymour James Carey, both of who joined the army. She married Alexander Mcdonald Baird in 1902. Inscription on front in ink ‘Laura Adeline Carey & dog Bill 1870'. Good condition. (2.) A carte de visite of Seymour James Carey by Henry J. Godbold of St. Leonards on Sea. In ink on reverse ‘Seymour James Carey April 1880'. Lieutenant Seymour James Carey was born in Kent in 1874. He joined the Suffolk Regiment and was killed at Colesburg in South Africa during the Boer War in 1900. Faded, bottom edge trimmed (not affecting image).
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Mrs. Cregoe Colmore, A carte de visite photograph by P. Skeolan, 12 Promenade Villas, Cheltenham, taken in the early 1860s. Inscribed in ink on reverse ‘Mrs. Cregoe Colmore, Moor End, Cheltenham'. Probably Mary Cregoe Colmore, the wife of Colmore Frind Cregoe Colmore of Moor End, Cheltenham. She is wearing a silk dress and posed with a small dog. Good condition.
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Captain Francis Price, A carte de visite of Francis Price by Edward J. Harding and Son, 11 South Mall, Cork, Ireland. Francis Price (1804-1863) was the son of Sir Rose Price of Trengwainton, Cornwall. He married Catherine Henrietta Hewitt in Cork in 1835 and they were the parents of Henry Talbot Price. Inscription in ink on the reverse, 'Captain Francis Price, 19th Regiment, Son of Sir Rose Price baronet'. The photograph was taken in about 1861 and Price is posed with a tiny white dog at his feet. Good condition.
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Colonel George Maclean, A carte de visite photograph of Colonel George Maclean of the Royal Artillery, taken by Kilburn of London in about 1861. George Maclean (c.1811-1862) was the son of Alexander Maclean and Lady Margaret Maclean of Ardgour, Scotland. His grandfather was John Hope, the second Earl of Hopetoun. George Maclean was Aide de Camp to the Governor of Ceylon in the 1840s and married Jane Amelia Campbell, the daughter of Sir Colin Campbell. The reverse is inscribed in pencil 'Col. George Maclean R.A. husband to Minnie sister to my mother'. A few minor marks to photo.
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Richard Augustus Byrde, a carte de visite photograph of the Reverend Richard Augustus Byrde (1844-1906) by D.L. Jones, Photographer, Bridge Street, Usk, Monmouthshire. The picture was taken in about 1871 when Byrde was a curate in Trostrey, Monmouthshire. Richard Augustus Byrde was born in Kandy, Ceylon, the son of Henry Charles Byrde. He later became a vicar in Honiton, Devon. He married Alice Mary Leyburn Bourne and they had children called Gladys Mary Byrde (married Arthur Frederick Fraser-Smith), Alice Evelyn Byrde and Herbert William Byrde (later a planter in Sri Lanka. Identified in ink on reverse as ‘The Revd. R. Byrde'.
Some aging, good condition.
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Charles Stephen Leslie, two carte de visite photographs of Charles Stephen Leslie of Petternear House, Balquhain Castle, Aberdeenshire by R. Brown of 8 West High Street, Inverurie, Scotland. The first shows Stephen smoking a pipe and wearing a kilt and tartan socks. The second shows Stephen, his young son sitting on a pony and two gillies. One gillie has a dirk and a shotgun. Charles Stephen Leslie (1832-1916), of the Clan Leslie, was a Scottish landowner. Good condition.
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Joseph and Elizabeth Winterhoff, a real photo postcard of Joseph Winterhoff and his wife Elizabeth, posted on 23 December 1903 to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Holloway, 20 Medora Road, Elm Park, Brixton Hill, London. The message reads 'With best wishes for health and happiness to you both and hoping you will spend a happy Xmas, from Joe & Elizabeth Winterhoff, Xmas 1903'. Joseph Winterhoff (c.1873-19) was born in Germany and was the son of Louise and Frederick Winterhoff. He grew up in Claines, Worcestershire. In 1901 the Winterhoffs were living in Walthamstow, London at 100 Albert Road and Joseph was working as a mechanical engineer. A few marks to card.
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Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney and Mrs. Alice Wilby Chesney, two carte de visite photographs by Clement Lagriffe of Paris. Charles Cornwallis Chesney (c.1826-1876) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers. He was born in Ireland and taught military history at Sandhurst and was the author of several influential books. His wife Alice (c.1834-1916) was born in Bermuda. Good condition.
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Eric William Mayers, a carte de visite photograph of Eric William Mayers age about four by Edgar Scamell, Photographer, 120 Crouch Hill, London. In ink on reverse ‘Eric William Mayers Dec. 28th 1893 July 28th 1955'. Eric Mayers was the son of James C. and Martha Mayers. As a child he lived in Hornsey. He served in the First World War and married Catherine Elaine Evans in 1923. He worked as a glass manufacturer. Good condition.
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, Edith Henrietta Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft and Henry Ernest Fowler, eight carte de visite photographs of the novelist Ellen Thorneycroft (1860-1929) as a child and teenager - including two with her sister Edith, one with her mother Ellen and one with her brother Henry. Rare.
1. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 3 taken c.1863 by W.H. Dodds, Photographer, Wolverhampton. She is with a tiny white dog. She was the daughter of Henry Hartley Fowler (1830-1911) the first Viscount Wolverhampton & Ellen Thorneycroft.
2. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler aged about 6, with her mother Ellen Fowler (nee Thorneycroft, later Viscountess Wolverhampton) and baby sister the novelist Edith Henrietta Fowler (1865-1944; married William Robert Hamilton and had sons called Gavin Robert Fowler Hamilton & Henry Fowler Hew Hamilton). Photograph by Mrs. Williams, 42 Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
3. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler aged about 7 c.1867 by Mrs Williams, 42 Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
4. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 10 taken in 1870 by Mrs. Williams, Talbot Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
5. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 12 taken in 1872 by Mrs. Williams, Talbot Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
6. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler age 15 with her sister Edith Henrietta Fowler and brother Henry Ernest Fowler (1870-1943; later 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton, married Evelyn Henrietta Wrottesley the daughter of Arthur Wrottesley). Taken in 1875 by Sarony, Sarony Square, Scarborough.
7. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler taken in 1877 by Mrs. Williams, Talbot Place, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton.
8. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler dressed, probably as a bridesmaid, c.1890, by the London Stereoscopic Company, 110 & 108 Regent Street & 54 Cheapside.
Rare family photos. Some aging and marks to some images; mostly good condition.
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Gracilla Boddington, a carte de visite photograph of Gracilla Boddington (1801-1887) by W. Cox of 13 Bridge Street, Northampton. Gracilla Boddington was born in Hawkshead, Lancashire and was the daughter of Grace Ashburner (the former wife of Irish politician Samuel Boddington) and Benjamin Boddington (who stood trial for 'stealing' his cousin's wife). The family wealth came from the South Sea Company. In 1871 she was living at Burcher Cottage in Titley, Herefordshire. Gracilla Boddington was the author of a number of religious books. The executor of her estate was her nephew Reginal Stewart Boddington. A few marks to image, but a rare item.
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Captain Thomas Mackenzie, a carte de visite photograph of Captain Thomas Mackenzie (born c.1837) of the 78th Highlanders by G.W. Wilson of Aberdeen. Thomas Mackenzie was the son of Forbes Mackenzie of Ross-shire, Scotland and joined the 78th Highland Regiment of Foot in 1858. In 1861 he was stationed at Edinburgh Castle. He became a captain in 1863, about the time this photograph was taken. Good condition.
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General Alfred Hastings Horsford, a carte de visite of Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford (1818-1885) by J. Beattie of Clifton, Briatol. He was the son of George Horsford and Mary Ann Brocksop. He fought with the Rifle Brigade in the Kaffir War of 1846-1847 and commanded the 1st battalion in 1852-1853. During the Crimean War he commanded the 1st Battalion in the Battle of the Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman and at the siege Sebastopol. During the Indian Mutiny he was commander of the 3rd battalion of the Rifle Brigade at Cawnpore and was wounded. He also saw action at Oude. He died at Belmaduthy House, Munlochy, in Scotland in 1885. Top edge of card trimmed. Good condition.
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William Arthur Warner Sleigh, Emma Alice Sleigh and their baby daughter Emma Warner Sleigh, a carte de visite by Mayall of Brighton. Inscribed in ink on the reverse 'With Mr. & Mrs. Warner Sleigh's kindest regards 2nd September 1870' and on the front 'The Happy Family of Warner Sleigh'. It has to be said Mrs. Sleigh does not look very happy. William Arthur Warner Sleigh (1843-1881) was the son of top barrister William Campbell Sleigh and Amelia Warner. He followed his father into the law in 1864 and was immediately given important cases; through illness, in later years, he was often unable to appear in court cases for which he had been employed. He was described as clever but always in trouble. Nor did he prove to be a good husband; married three times, his first two marriages ended in divorce and he died on the way to America where he planned to make a new start. Emma Alice Bignell (1847-1893) was Warner's second wife and they married in 1869; she was the daughter of Robert Richard Bignell a wine merchant and the owner of the music hall the Argyll Rooms. Emma divorced Sleigh in 1877 and in 1878 married solictor Charles John Curtis; after Curtis's death she married Edward Chapman. Emma Warner Sleigh (1870-1929) married engineer Ernest Matthew Lacey in 1888 and later, and at the time of her death, she was living with engineer Stamford Vair Clirehugh; she had children called Robert Markswell Lacey, Ernest Frank Sleigh Lacey, Frank Philip Sleigh Lacey, Ernest Vair Sleigh Lacey and William Warner Sleigh Lacey. Good condition - but note the baby's face cannot be seen very clearly. Ref. no. 27a

Marion Emmeline Delacombe and Harry Delacombe, a carte de visite of Marion Emmeline Delacombe (1863-c.1950) and Harry Delacombethe (c.1872-1959) age 17 and 8 by W. Price, The Babington Photographic Studio, Babington Lane, Derby. Marion was born in Woolwich in 1863 and Harry was born on the island of San Juan in Columbia. They were the children of Captain William Addis Delacombe of the Royal Marines and Isabella Ann Harris. In 1881 they were living at Little Over Hill, Normanton, Derbyshire, where their father William was Chief Constable of Derby, with their parents and sister Isabella Fanny Delacombe (married Kenneth Hugh Buchanan) and brother William Barclay Delacombe (he became an auctioneer and married Virginia Jessopp). Harry became a journalist in London and married Julia Annie Towers Smith, the widow of Thomas Edmund Oddie and they had a son called Roy Delacombe. Identified in ink on reverse ‘M.E. Delacombe, Harry Delecombe September 1880'. Good condition.
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Captain Alexander Peebles, three carte de visite photographs of Alexander Peebles in uniform by the London School of Photography. One of the photographs is autographed 'yrs truly Alexander Peebles, Captain C. Battery L.A.B'. L.A.B. stands for London Artillery Brigade, also known as the 1st London Artillery Corps. Peebles became captain in 1869 and resigned his commission in 1872. Alexander Marshall Peebles was born in Scotland (c.1840-1891), the son of Alexander Marshall Peebles and Euphemia Peebles, and he grew up in Lambeth where his father was a paper merchant. He became an architect and architect to the City of London and married Emily Louisa Maclure in 1876. Good condition.
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Sim Family, A montage of photographs taken from carte de visites showing the Sim brothers and sister. The Sim family were the sons and daughter of John Coysgarne Sim (c.1810-1876), a wood broker and his wife Harriet. The pictures show: John Lambert Sim (c.1837-1893) who married Helena Josephine Walden; Edward Coysgarne Sim (c.1838-1900), who joined the Royal Engineers and served abroad for many years, rising to the rank of Major General (He and his wife Alice Frances H. Sim (c.1846-1909) had three children, Alice M. Sim, Arthur C. Sim, and Edward H. Sim), as E.C. Sim he wrote two books, Our Travels Round the World (1897) and Our Narrative ( 1899); Louisa Elizabeth Sim (1842-?), who married William Hepburn Rennie, the Governor of St. Vincent (after his death she moved to Hastings in Sussex with her children Mary, Katherine and Alice); Charles A. Sim (c.1840-1897), who became a Major General in the army; Frederick William Sim (1847-?) who became a barrister; Arthur James Sim (1849-?)
Malcolm Ovans Sim (c1846-1894) who married Helen Bovill at Brighton in 1879 and had children called
Neville Lambert Sim, Anthony, Ernest Frederick, Irene, and Daphne Helen Sim; Arthur Sim (born c. 1849). On the reverse of the card is a larger photo of Charles Alexander Sim in uniform with his brother John taken in Chatham in 1860. Good condition. Ref. no. 61a

Marian Eliza Clementson, a carte de visite by J.C. Stodart, Art Photographer, Margate. Marian Eliza Clementson (c.1856-1947) was born in Portugal, the daughter of wine importer and merchant Edwin John Clementson and Fanny Maria Clementson. In 1861 she was living with her parents and siblings Alice Fanny Clementson (married Richard Henry Heward), Isabel Mary Clementson and Herbert Walter Clementson in Camberwell. She also had brothers called John Clementson, Ernest Frank Clementson, Arthur Edwin Clementson. Marian Clementson became a schoolteacher and for a time taught in Brighton. In 1891 she was living at 103 Addiscombe Road, Croydon with her mother and sisters Isabel and Annie Carlota Clementson. In 1901 she was living at 9 Hove Park Villas with her sister Annie and in 1911 they were living at 18 Lowther Road, Preston Park, Brighton. Identified in pencil. Good condition.
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Lanyon Family, six carte de visite photographs of the Lanyon family: 1. Hannah Lanyon by Constable of Brighton. Hannah Hyde (1843-1929) was born in Windsor, Berkshire and grew up in London. She was the daughter of Edward Hyde and Emma Hyde of Park Place, Paddington and later 23 Alfred Place West, Thurloe Square, and she had a brother called John Edward Hyde. Her father was an Inland Revenue inspector. Hannah Hyde married John Lanyon in Kensington in 1863. 2. John Lanyon and Hannah Lanyon by M. Allen & Company of Dublin. John Lanyon (1839-1900) was the son of Elizabeth Helen Lanyon (nee Owen) and the architect Sir Charles Lanyon of The Abbey, White Abbey, County Antrim. The family had strong associations to Belfast, where Charles Lanyon designed many important buildings. 3. Elizabeth Catherine Hermione Hyde by Cecil W. Wood, Brompton Photographic Studio, London. Captioned in pencil on the reverse 'Granny Hyde', this must be Edward Hyde's second wife (his first wife Emma, the mother of Hannah was already dead by 1851) Elizabeth Catherine Hermione Brooksbank (1820-1915), the daughter of Thomas Constantine Brooksbank and Elizabeth Brooksbank, who married Edward Hyde in 1865. 4. Elizabeth Hyde Lanyon by Lambert Weston and Son of Dover Folkestone. Born in Dublin in 1866, she married Michael Seymour Dudley Westropp (1868-1954) in 1902. 5. Emma Hyde Lanyon (1864-1940) by Lambert Weston and Son. Emma Lanyon was born in Dublin and married Ferdinand Mansel Peacock in Belfast in 1899. 6. Emma Hyde Lanyon in 1867 by W.E. Debenham of London. The blank card edges have been trimmed on each picture, otherwise good condition. Ref. no. 83a

Philip Thomas Buston, a carte de visite of Lieutenant Philip Thomas Buston of the Royal Engineers in uniform by Alexander Bassano. Buston eventually became a general and D.S.O. Philip Buston (1853-1938) was born in Twyford, Hampshire, the son of the Reverend Roger Buston and his wife Anne Mary Buston. As a child Philip lived at Vicarage House in Twyford with his parents and siblings Roger Buston (became a school master married Mary Georgiana Harrop Milne Redhead), Edith Mary Buston, Charles Buston (became a clergyman & married Edith Eleanor Richards), Arthur John Buston (became a cotton broker & married Catherine Emma Pritchard), Anne Isabella Buston, Mary Phillis Katherine Buston, Eleanor Sarah Buston (married farmer George Edward Gillett) and Margaret Elizabeth Gretton Buston (married cleryman). Philip Buston joined the Royal Engineers and became a Major in 1889, and was awarded the D.S.O. in 1901 after serving in the Boer War. After he retired from the army he went to live at Tilstock Lodge, Whitchurch, Shropshire and he died there in 1938. Identified in ink on reverse ‘Philip T. Buston Lieut. R.E.'. Good condition. Ref. no. 95a

Colonel Edmund Stephens, a carte de visite of Lieutenant Edmund Stephens of the Royal Engineers by George Boyer Davies of Wellington Street, Woolwich. Edmund Stephens (c.1839-1900) was born in London. He joined the Royal Engineers and was a Lieutenant in 1859. In 1871 he was at the School of Military Engineering in Brompton and in 1872 he became a captain. In 1874 he was stationed in the Bahamas at the Colonial Office. In 1875 he married Florence Cockburn Harvey, the daughter of George Cockburn Harvey, at St. Luke's Cathedral in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They had three daughters called Mary Vernon Stephens, Frances Vernon Stephens and Dorothy Vernon Stephens. In the 1890s they lived in Hove at 8 Selborne Road. In 1900 Colonel Edmund Stephens died at 40 Brunswick Road in Hove. Identified in pencil on reverse as 'Edmund Stephens Lt 1/4/59' and in ink on the image by the chair as 'Stephens RE'. Top edge of the blank card trimmed, good condition. Ref. no. 99a

Jeanie Johnston Cameron and Margaret Cameron, two carte de visites of sisters Jeanie Johnston Cameron (1869-1955) and Margaret Cameron (1868-1950) as children by Thomas Protheroe of Wine Street, Bristol. They were the daughters of hosier and draper Angus Cameron and Jessie Wright Cameron; their other siblings were Ewen Cameron, James Cameron, Duncan Cameron and Rachel Burr Cameron (who married Thomas James Macnamara, the Member of Parliament for Camberwell). Jeanie Johnston Cameron was born in Bristol in 1869. Jeanie became a teacher and married journalist, author and publisher's editor Harold Armitage, the son of teacher William Armitage, at Newton Park Union Church in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1901. In 1902 they had a son called Angus Armitage. Margaret Cameron was born in Bristol in 1868 and she became a teacher. She married schoolteacher Fred Foster in Leeds in 1900 and in 1911 they were living in Kingston on Thames. Identified in ink on the reverse. A little fading, good condition.
Ref. no. 106a

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Reginald Scott Sopwith, a cabinet photograph of Reginald Scott Sopwith as a young child posed with a toy horse by Palmer of Granville Marina Studios, Ramsgate. Reginald Scott Sopwith (1878-1916) was born in Staffordshire. He was the son of Catherine (nee Catherine Susan Shelford) & Arthur Sopwith, a civil and mining engineer. In 1881 he was living at Church Street, Burntwood Edial and Woodhouses, Staffordshire with his parents and brothers Thomas Karl Sopwith (he became a famous clergyman), Shelford Francis Sopwith and sister Anna Gwenmore Sopwith; he also had brothers called George Ernest Sopwith and Sydney Sheldon Sopwith. In 1901 he was a mining student boarding in Lichfield St. Mary, Staffordshire. During the First World War he enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment; he was killed in action at Flanders on 11 April 1916. Identified in ink on front as ‘Reginald Scott Sopwith age 2 yrs & 2 months'. In pencil in reverse 'Miss H.A.', the person it must have been given to. A little aging, good condition. Order ref. no. 115a

Wright Family & Osbert Charles Gresham Leveson Gower, five carte de visites and one cabinet photograph.
1. Carte de visite by Augustus Edward Wright), Binsted Vicarage, Alton, Hants. Augustus Edward Wright (1853-1928) was born in Caxton, Cambridgeshire and was the son of Augustus John Wright (1818-1869) and Rebecca Elizabeth Corker (1821-1859). Picture shows the entrance of a house, a maid, an older woman in an invalid chair, an older woman pushing it and a young woman standing. Reverend A.E. Wright was a keen amateur photographer and well known for his pictures of the Binsted area.
2. Cabinet photo by Alfred W. Kissack of Eton, Windsor of Edith Annie Wright, Frederick Hornsby Wright (seated) and Osbert Charles Gresham Levison Gower. Taken in about 1903 & identified in ink on reverse. Frederick Hornsby Wright (1888-1976) was born in 1888 Kensington, the son of barrister Robert Augustus Arthur Wright and Edith Annie Wright (nee Barnes). Frederick married Leone Irma Elter and had sons Allan Hornsby Wright & Robert Hornsby Wright. His Eton schoolfriend Osbert Charles Gresham Leveson Gower (1889-1968) was the son of diplomat Arthur Francis Gresham Leveson Gower and Caroline Frederica Foljambe). He married Winifred Van Allen Phillips Young and became a commander in the navy.
3. Carte de visite taken c.1865 of Augustus Wright (named Augustus Wright in pencil) as a boy by Messrs Ayles & Bonniwell of Trinity House, Hastings. Augustis Edward Wright (1853-1928) or his relative Augustus Hornsby Wright (1852-c.1945) son of George Bache Wright and Mary Griffith Wright.
4. Carte de visite of Robert Wright (named as Robert Wright in pencil) as a boy by Mr. Henry Lambert, photographer, 10 Fountain Bdgs, Bath. Robert Augustus Arthur Wright (1855-1900) was the father of Eton schoolboy Frederick Hornsby Wright. Robert was the son born of Joseph Hornsby Wright and Ann Oaks. He became a a barrister and married Edith Annie Barnes.
5. Carte de visite of Annie Wright (named as Annie Wright) by Mayland of Cambridge. Annie Marie Wright (1851-?) was born in Caxton, Cambridgeshire 1851, the daughter of Augustus John Wright and Rebecca Elizabeth Corker and the sister of Augustus Edward Wright.
6. Carte de visite of Mrs. J.H. Wright (identified in ink on reverse) by Maull & Polybank, Photographers 55 Gracechurch Street, 187a Piccadilly and Tavistock House Fulham Road London. Mrs. J.H. Wright is presumably Mrs. Joseph Hornsby Wright (nee Ann Oakes). She was the wife of Joseph Hornsby Wright, mother of Robert August Arthur Wright and Arthur Hornsby Wright and grandmother of Frederick Hornsby Wright).
Good condition. Ref. no. 117a

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