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Modern copies of this figure were sold in the Museum shop in the 1980s. Replicas also made by Ben Walsh for 'Somerset Country Furniture', Ilchester, on sale in Harrods, March 1989.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Dummy board, pig feeding from a bowl, British 1750-1800","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Graham, Clare. Dummy Boards and Chimney Boards. Shire Album 214, Aylesbury: Shire Publications Ltd, 1988. 32 p., ill. 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