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Carter No.: 227b

Handlist description: Curved stick with bark and beetle-wing decoration

Card/Transcription No.: 227b-03


227 (b) Cont.

C. (g) Same as (c) (h) <> Ground dark: circles gold on (?): dots ditto. (i) Same as (c) (j) Same as (b) but <> are gold instead of beetle. (k) Same as (c) (l) One scroll as in (d) D. Plain gold tubing i.e. hand grip. On either end, overlying, a band of twisted gold wire work, 1.5 wide. <> a b a b a (a) Two pairs of wires twisted individually, between straight border wires. (b) Continuous scroll. The component parts of these bands were soldered together, and the band applied as a whole.

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Card no. 227b-03 relating to Carter no. 227b
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