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London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Limited, 1909, p. 167"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Longhurst, Margaret H. <u>Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory</u>. Part I. 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